APPSPIRE App in Preventing Students From Smoking

Cigarette Smoker Clinical Trial

Official title:

APPSPIRE: Expanding the Reach of an Innovative Tobacco Control Program for Youth

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01967082
• Other study ID #: 2013-0369
• Secondary ID: NCI-2018-0305420
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 16, 2013
• Est. completion date: January 8, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: January 2020
• Source: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This trial studies how well APPSPIRE, a smartphone app, works in preventing students from smoking. Technology-driven intervention programs, such as the APPSPIRE app, have the potential to increase access to health behavior treatments and therapies, such as tobacco cessation support, and provide effective prevention messaging.

Description:

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Develop a prototype of the APPSPIRE (phone application [app] of a smoking prevention interactive experience).

II. At post assessment, students enrolled in the study will qualitatively provide information about the usability and usefulness for the prevention and cessation sites.

III. Investigate frequency of use of and exposure to APPSPIRE modules via an objective measure of general use.

IV. Investigate how feasible the program will be. V. Obtain a maintained use of APPSPIRE with high completeness and extent of completion.

VI. Evaluate change in stage of change from baseline to about 1 and 4-month follow-ups among participants.

OUTLINE:

Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: January 8, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: January 8, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 24 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Student at Houston Community College (HCC)

• Speak and read English

• Own an iPhone

• Be enrolled in at least one class at HCC

• Provide current contact information

• Smoke 1 or more cigarettes a day (cessation group)

• Have access to the internet (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)

• Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale

Exclusion Criteria:

• Does not plan to continue as a student at their campus sometime during the year of the study (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)

• Current tobacco use (prevention/advocacy group)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cigarette Smoker
• Current Every Day Smoker
• Student

Intervention

Behavioral:
• APPSPIRE
Given APPSPIRE app
• Focus Group
Attend focus group

Other:
• Survey Administration
Complete survey

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Houston Community College	Houston	Texas
United States	M D Anderson Cancer Center	Houston	Texas

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Frequency of APPSPIRE application (app) use	Will be measured in minutes per day and with descriptive statistics. Will measure using mean, median and standard deviation for continuous variables.	Up to 4 months
Primary	The Feasibility of the tobacco control program.	Feasibly will be measured by multiplying the variable of two concepts: ease of use and ability to fit the program into routine schedules.	Up to 4 months
Primary	The Completeness with the Percentages of Participants surveyed.	Completeness will be measured as the percentage of participants who continue to use AppSPIRE until the 4 month follow up survey.	Up to 4 months
Primary	The extent of completion for the modules AppSPIRE.	The extent of completion includes the various modules of AppSPIRE. High extent of completion is obtained if 75% of the participants have completed all modules of AppSPIRE.	Up to 4 months
Primary	The Stages of the Change Scale	A validated measure, The Stages of Change Scale, will be used to clarify smokers into 3 categories: pre-contemplation, contemplation and preparation.	Baseline up to 4 months

External Links

•   MD Anderson Cancer Center Website