Tobacco Status Project: Social Media Intervention for Young Adult Smokers

Smoking Clinical Trial

— TSP  

Official title:

Social Media Intervention for Young Adult Smokers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02207036
• Other study ID #: A119678
• Secondary ID: 5K23DA032578
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 13, 2014
• Last updated: May 5, 2017
• Start date: October 2014
• Est. completion date: November 2016

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: University of California, San Francisco
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This randomized clinical trial will test the efficacy of a Facebook intervention based on the Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska and DiClemente) and US Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines with young adults who smoke cigarettes who are age 18 to 25 (N=480).

Description:

Participants will be randomized to one of two conditions: (1) a Facebook-delivered intervention tailored to readiness to quit smoking; or (2) the control condition (referral to the Smokefree.gov website). The intervention will include 12 weeks of Facebook-based messages and activities tailored to participants' stage of change.

Assessments will occur at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months follow-up. Assessments will include measures on smoking patterns and thoughts about abstinence. 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: 501
• Est. completion date: November 2016
• Est. primary completion date: November 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 25 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• ages 18-25 years old

• english literate

• have access to Smartphone or computer with camera

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

• have smoked =100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 3 or more days of the week

Exclusion Criteria:

• do not read English

• younger than 18 or older than 25 years of age

• do not have access to a Smartphone or computer with a camera

• only go on Facebook 3 or fewer days a week

• have smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime or do not currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 3 or more days of the week

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Smoking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Facebook intervention
90 days of Facebook messaging, weekly Ask the Doctor sessions
• Smokefree.gov
referral to the NCI Smokefree.gov website

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 Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (4)

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

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Health risk behaviors	We will assess prevalence rates of health risk behaviors other than smoking including recent alcohol and illicit drug use, poor sleep quality, sedentary behavior, poor diet, depression, and high risk sexual behavior.	3, 6, and 12 months post baseline
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
Primary	7-day point prevalence abstinence at 12 months	Reports of no smoking in the 7 days prior to the 12 month assessment. Biochemical verification of abstinence will also be recorded.	12 months post baseline
Secondary	Reduction in cigarettes smoked by at least 50% between Baseline and each follow-up timepoint	Reduction will be assessed at 3, 6, and 12 month follow-ups.	3, 6, and 12 months post baseline
Secondary	Quit attempts	Quit attempt during the follow-up period at 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline.	3, 6, and 12 month post-baseline