nctId: NCT06308081 id: UPCC 13023 id: 849052 type: OTHER domain: University of Pennsylvania briefTitle: Social Media Anti-Vaping Messages to Reduce ENDS Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority Teens acronym: SMART overallStatus: RECRUITING date: 2024-02-21 date: 2025-05-31 date: 2025-12-31 date: 2024-03-13 date: 2024-04-12 name: Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine class: OTHER name: University of Florida briefSummary: The investigators long-term goal is to reduce tobacco use and tobacco-related health disparities among SGM populations. The objective of Project SMART (Social Media Anti-Vaping Messages to Reduce ENDS Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority Teens) is to evaluate the effectiveness of an sexual gender minority (SGM) -tailored social media intervention to prevent vaping initiation among SGM youth ages 13-20 years. The investigators central hypothesis is that SGM-tailored anti-vaping social media messages will be more effective than existing non-tailored messages to prevent vaping initiation among SGM youth. The scientific premise for this work is based on principles of cultural tailoring in health communication for vulnerable populations, the Health Equity Promotion Model, and the Message Impact Framework. The investigators are developing and evaluating a social media intervention because SGM youth have a high rate of social media use and are more likely to go online for health information than non-SGM youth. Social media, moreover, are increasingly used for health promotion to address health disparities and well-being of SGM populations. The investigators will conduct rapid-cycle feedback with stakeholders including SGM organization leaders to provide input on the message design, testing, and intervention implementation to ensure feasibility and acceptability of the intervention. conditions: Vaping conditions: Adolescent Behavior conditions: Communication Research studyType: INTERVENTIONAL phases: NA allocation: RANDOMIZED interventionModel: PARALLEL interventionModelDescription: Participants will be randomized to 1 of 2 conditions: SGM-tailored anti-vaping messages versus non-tailored messages. Block randomization will achieve balance across the two conditions based on age group, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and prior use. Both conditions will receive repeated exposure of messages within their assigned condition daily for 4, up to a total of 24 messages over the course of the study. Messages will be delivered using texting to participants mobile phones. We will record participants' self-reported engagement to the messages at the follow-up survey (after measuring the study outcomes). Participants will be asked to complete a baseline survey comprising vaping susceptibility and characteristics, surveys at 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-weeks follow-up to measure vaping susceptibility. primaryPurpose: PREVENTION masking: NONE count: 1500 type: ESTIMATED name: Tailored measure: Susceptibility to vaping measure: Vaping initiation sex: ALL minimumAge: 13 Years maximumAge: 20 Years stdAges: CHILD stdAges: ADULT facility: University of Pennsylvania status: RECRUITING city: Philadelphia state: Pennsylvania zip: 19104 country: United States name: Elaine Hanby, MA role: CONTACT phone: 215-573-5140 email: elaine.hanby@asc.upenn.edu name: Jenine Pilla, MPH role: CONTACT email: Jenine.Pilla@asc.upenn.edu name: Andy Tan, PhD role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR lat: 39.95233 lon: -75.16379 hasResults: False