Testing Methods of Self-persuasion Involving Cigarette Smoking

Smoking Clinical Trial

Official title:

Testing Methods of Self-persuasion Involving Cigarette Smoking

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02069483
• Other study ID #: Pro00048251
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 19, 2014
• Last updated: September 25, 2014
• Start date: April 2014
• Est. completion date: September 2014

Study information

• Verified date: September 2014
• Source: Duke University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Smokers who are not actively engaged in quitting will participate in a study using self-generated text and audio text messages containing reasons to quit smoking.

Description:

Participants must have a smartphone that can accept text messages from an email address and link to a study related website to hear audio recordings, and be willing to receive a text message each weekday for two weeks between 8-9am as part of the study. After completing a phone screener, participants will complete a baseline phone survey. Within two weeks of the baseline survey, participants will come to an in-person session. At that time they will be randomized with equal probability to one of two conditions: 1) Motivational Interviewing (MI), or 2) tailored feedback on reasons for quitting. After undergoing MI or receiving tailored feedback, participants will be asked to generate message that they feel would motivate them to quit. These messages will be both text and audio. After generating and reviewing these messages, participants will then evaluate these messages before ending the laboratory session. Starting two days after their laboratory session, between 8:00am and 9:00am, staff will send participants one of the self-generated text messages with a link to also hear the message; this process will last for two weeks. Within a week of stopping sending messages, participants will be asked to complete a final phone survey to elicit smoking behaviors and provided feedback on the messaging.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 48
• Est. completion date: September 2014
• Est. primary completion date: September 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years old or older

• not actively engaged in trying to quit smoking

• must have smoked 100 cigarettes to date

• must smoke at least 1 cigarette per day

• must own smartphone capable of receiving messages from study email

• must agree to receive text messages between 8-9am each weekday for 2 weeks

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Smoking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Motivational Interviewing
Subjects will engage in motivational interviewing in order to generate motivating messages related to quitting smoking.
• Tailored Feedback
Subjects will self-generate reasons they want to quit smoking during the baseline survey and record these reasons during the in-person activity.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Duke University Medical Center	Durham	North Carolina

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Duke University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of messages generated during in-person visit		one hour	No
Secondary	Quality of messages	Smokers' evaluation of message (e.g., persuasiveness, accuracy/credibility, ease of generating messages).	before and after completion of the trial, approximately 3 weeks	No