Responses to E-cigarette Message Source and Presentation

Vaping Clinical Trial

Official title:

Identifying and Examining the Effects of Source and Presentation on Responses to Electronic Cigarette Public Education Messages in Young Adult Vapers and Non-vapers - Part 1

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06274723
• Other study ID #: STUDY00001220
• Secondary ID: 1K99CA281094-01A
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 1, 2024
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: June 2024
• Source: University of Massachusetts, Worcester
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to use crowdsourcing to test the effects of a message source (expert and peer) and message presentation types (one-sided and two-sided) to identify the optimal message type for young adults who vape and do not vape.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 800
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 24 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• US residents ages 18-24

• Fluent in English

• Reporting either vaping in the past 30 days or not having vaped in the past 30 days but susceptible to vaping

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age less than 18 or above 24

• Not fluent in English

• Not a member of partnering crowdsourcing behavioral research platform conducting the study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Vaping

Intervention

Other:
• Expert
Participants will view a brief description of an expert source.
• Peer
Participants will view a brief description of a peer source.
• 1 Sided
Participants will view e-cigarette education messages in one-sided.
• 2 Sided
Participants will view e-cigarette education messages in two-sided.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Massachusetts, Worcester	National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Message acceptance	Message acceptance will be measured by five-item perceived message effectiveness questionnaire, such as the extent to which the message was worth remembering, grabbed their attention, powerful, convincing, and meaningful on a scale from 1 (Strongly disagree) to 5 (Strongly agree).	20 minutes
Primary	Harm perceptions	Harm perceptions will be measured by four-item e-cigarette harm perceptions questionnaire, such as the extent to which vaping is safe, contain flavors that are safe to use, contain dangerous chemicals, and harmful to health on a scale from 1 (Strongly disagree) to 5 (Strongly agree).	20 minutes
Secondary	Psychological reactance	Psychological reactance will be measured by six-item reactance questionnaire, such as perceptions of messages being manipulative, misleading, distorted, overblown, exaggerated, and overstated on a scale from 1 (Strongly disagree) to 5 (Strongly agree), and a four-item anger scale, measuring the extent to which the messages made participants feel irritated, angry, annoyed, and aggravated on a scale from 1 (not at all) to 5 (very much).	20 minutes
Secondary	Message liking	Message liking will be measured by a single-item liking of the message on scale from 1 (Dislike very much) to 5 (Like very much).	20 minutes
Secondary	Source trust	Source trust will be measured by a single-item trust in health information source questionnaire, such as trust in source about vaping information on a scale from 1(Not at all) to 5 (Very much so).	20 minutes
Secondary	Attitudes	Attitudes will be measured by seven-item vaping attitudes questionnaire, such as vaping is unenjoyable/enjoyable, unhealthy/healthy, dangerous/safe, boring/fun, stupid/smart, not cool/cool, and not attractive/attractive on a five-point bipolar scale.	20 minutes
Secondary	Behavioral intentions to vape or try vaping	Behavioral intentions to vape will be measured by a three-item behavioral intentions questionnaire, such as intentions to vape (for vapers)/try vaping (for non-vapers) soon, anytime during the next year, would use offered by one of their best friends on a scale from 1 (Definitely not) to 5 (Definitely yes).	20 minutes