Effects of Social Media Use on Young Adults' E-Cigarette Use

Electronic Cigarette Use Clinical Trial

Official title:

Identifying and Addressing the Effects of Social Media Use on Young Adults' E-Cigarette Use: A Solutions-Oriented Approach

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06142877
• Other study ID #: 15427
• Secondary ID: K01DA055073
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 4, 2023
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: University of Oklahoma
• Contact: Erin A Vogel, PhD
• Phone: 405-271-8001
• Email: erin-vogel[@]ouhsc.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effects of social media use on e-cigarette use in young adults who use e-cigarettes. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does reducing social media use change young adults' e-cigarette use?

• Does reducing social media use change things such as young adults' mental health and what they see on social media?

Participants will complete surveys and submit screenshots showing how much time they spend on social media.

Researchers will compare young adults who reduce their social media use to young adults who use social media as usual, to see if their e-cigarette use differs.

Description:

The overall goals of this project are to understand how young adults' social media use affects their nicotine vaping and to identify intervention targets that mitigate social media's impact on vaping. Prevalence of vaping and social media use among young adults have increased in tandem. Exposure to vaping-related social media content is common and is associated with vaping. Intense social media use appears to contribute to young adults' increased mental health symptoms, which are linked to tobacco product use. This project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of the causal links between social media use and vaping in young adulthood. Young adults with past-month vaping will report time spent on social media, vaping-related social media content exposure, social comparison on social media, mental health, and vaping behavior. After a 1-month baseline measurement period, they will be randomized to reduce their social media use (incentivized) or use social media as usual for a 3-month experimental period. Longitudinal within- and between-subjects analyses will test relationships between time spent on social media, risk factors for vaping, and vaping behavior. Specific research aims are to: (1) investigate the relationships between a reduction in social media use and: a) vaping content exposure, b) social comparison, and c) mental health, and (2) examine whether reducing social media use reduces past-month vaping days, vaping episodes per vaping day, and puffs per vaping episode.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: February 1, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 25 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18-25

• Daily social media use

• Ownership of a smartphone

• Vaping (i.e., use of a nicotine e-cigarette) on 1-19 days of the past 30 days

• Residing in the United States

Exclusion Criteria:

-Lack of capacity to provide informed consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Electronic Cigarette Use

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Social Media Use Reduction
Participants will be incentivized to reduce their social media use by a pre-specified percentage from baseline.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	Oklahoma City	Oklahoma

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Oklahoma	National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Stanford University, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Past-month vaping days	Number of days the participant vaped nicotine in the past 30 days	Collected at baseline, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo
Secondary	Episodes per vaping day	Average number of times the participant used a nicotine vaping device on each day (of the past 30) they vaped nicotine	Collected at baseline, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo
Secondary	Puffs per vaping episode	Past-month number of puffs per nicotine vaping episode (1-20)	Collected at baseline, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo