Free Samples for Health

Phase 2 Enrolling by invitation 1200 enrolled Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute HealthPartners Institute · collab Kaiser Permanente · collab Massachusetts General Hospital · collab Medical University of South Carolina · collab National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) · collab Northwestern University · collab University of Alabama at Birmingham · collab University of Rochester · collab

RandomizedFactorialSingle-blindTreatment

Summary

The Free Samples for Health (FreSH) study tests whether providing free samples of stop smoking medicine called nicotine replacement therapy at dental visits results in a greater number of people quitting smoking than providing a gift of equal value (an electric toothbrush).

Timeline

Start: 2023-06-12
Primary completion: 2025-05-28
Completion: 2025-07-31

Publications

Fang P, Adkins-Hempel M, Lischka T, Basile S, Rindal DB, Carpenter MJ, Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT, Dahne J, Helseth SA, Levy DE, Truong A, Leo MC, Funkhouser K, Louis DR, Japuntich SJ; National Dental PBRN Collaborative group. A National Dental Practice-Based Research Network phase II, cluster-randomized clinical trial assessing nicotine replacement therapy sampling in dental settings: study protocol for the Free Samples for Health (FreSH) study. BMC Oral Health. 2024 Aug 28;24(1):1007. doi: 10.1186/s12903-024-04758-w.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Nicotine	Unknown	4 mg	Other
Subject	Nicotine	Unknown	14 mg	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.