A Facebook Intervention for Young Sexual and Gender Minority Smokers

Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial

— POP  

Official title:

A Facebook Intervention for Young Sexual and Gender Minority Smokers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03259360
• Other study ID #: PA-15-263
• Secondary ID: R21MD011765
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 23, 2018
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: May 2020
• Source: University of California, San Francisco
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The 2-year research plan will test the Put It Out Project (POP) in a pilot randomized trial (N=120) compared to TSP and two historical control conditions. Participants will be young adults who smoke, identify as sexual or gender minorities, and use Facebook. The primary outcome will be biochemically verified 7-day abstinence from smoking at 3 and 6 months. Secondary outcomes will be a quit attempt (y/n), stage of change, and thoughts about tobacco abstinence at 3 and 6 mos.

Description:

Participants will be randomized to one of two conditions: (1) a Facebook-delivered intervention addressing tobacco use, tailored to SGM young adults; or (2) a 3-month Facebook intervention targeting tobacco use. Both interventions will include 90 days of Facebook-based messages and activities tailored to participants' readiness to quit smoking.

Assessments will occur at baseline, 3, and 6 months follow-up. Assessments will include measures on smoking, thoughts about abstinence, and SGM identity experiences. All participants who report no past 7-day smoking will be asked to give biochemical verification of smoking status with saliva cotinine test kits that will be mailed to participants.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 165
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: April 20, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 25 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• read English

• between 18 and 25 years of age

• indicate they use Facebook "most" (= 4) days per week

• have smoked =100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 4 or more days of the week

• identifies as SGM

Exclusion Criteria:

• do not read English

• are not between 18 and 25 years of age

• indicate they do not use Facebook "most" (= 4) days per week

• have not smoked =100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 4 or more days of the week

• does not identify as SGM

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Smoking
• Smoking Cessation
• Smoking, Cigarette
• Smoking, Tobacco
• Tobacco Dependence
• Tobacco Smoking
• Tobacco Use
• Tobacco Use Cessation
• Tobacco Use Disorder

Intervention

Behavioral:
• POP:
90 days of Facebook messaging, weekly live sessions targeting tobacco use and tailored to sexual and gender minority young adults
• TSP:
90 days of Facebook messaging, weekly live sessions targeting tobacco use

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of California San Francisco Department of Psychiatry	San Francisco	California

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, San Francisco	National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (5)

Ramo DE, Liu H, Prochaska JJ. A mixed-methods study of young adults' receptivity to using Facebook for smoking cessation: if you build it, will they come? Am J Health Promot. 2015 Mar-Apr;29(4):e126-35. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.130326-QUAL-128. Epub 2014 Feb 27. — View Citation

Ramo DE, Rodriguez TM, Chavez K, Sommer MJ, Prochaska JJ. Facebook Recruitment of Young Adult Smokers for a Cessation Trial: Methods, Metrics, and Lessons Learned. Internet Interv. 2014 Apr;1(2):58-64. — View Citation

Ramo DE, Thrul J, Chavez K, Delucchi KL, Prochaska JJ. Feasibility and Quit Rates of the Tobacco Status Project: A Facebook Smoking Cessation Intervention for Young Adults. J Med Internet Res. 2015 Dec 31;17(12):e291. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5209. — View Citation

Ramo DE, Thrul J, Delucchi KL, Ling PM, Hall SM, Prochaska JJ. The Tobacco Status Project (TSP): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a Facebook smoking cessation intervention for young adults. BMC Public Health. 2015 Sep 15;15:897. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2217-0. — View Citation

Thrul J, Klein AB, Ramo DE. Smoking Cessation Intervention on Facebook: Which Content Generates the Best Engagement? J Med Internet Res. 2015 Nov 11;17(11):e244. doi: 10.2196/jmir.4575. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	7-day point prevalence abstinence at 3 months	Reports of no smoking in the 7 days prior to the 3 month assessment. Biochemical verification of abstinence will also be recorded.	3 months post baseline
Primary	7-day point prevalence abstinence at 6 months	Reports of no smoking in the 7 days prior to the 6 month assessment. Biochemical verification of abstinence will also be recorded.	6 months post baseline
Secondary	Reduction in cigarettes smoked by at least 50%	Reduction will be assessed at 3 and 6 month follow-ups.	3 and 6 months post baseline
Secondary	Tobacco use quit attempts	Whether a quit attempt was made during the follow-up period at 3 and 6 months post-baseline.	3 and 6 months post baseline
Secondary	Readiness to quit tobacco	Proportion of participants ready to quit smoking in the next month assessed at 3 and 6 months	3 and 6 months post baseline
Secondary	Thoughts About Tobacco Abstinence	Desire to quit, abstinence self-efficacy, perceived difficulty of quitting and abstinence goal	3 and 6 months post baseline