Clinical trial NCT03834974: Social Media Indoor Tanning Study
Official title: Using a Narrative-Based Approach to Reducing Indoor Tanning
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Skin Cancer
Lead sponsor: University of Connecticut
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2019-02-08
Enrollment: 66
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 30
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this research is to develop a social media delivered intervention to reduce unprotected sun exposure in young adults with a history of tanning.

Detailed description: We will use social marketing theory and a user-centered design approach to develop a social media intervention that engages young adults with a history of tanning to practice sun safety behaviors. We will incentivize young adults who have a history of tanning to create social media posts that encourage their peers to engage in sun safety. Focus groups of tanners guided the development of the intervention. Investigators will conduct a pilot feasibility trial where participants will be randomized to a condition in which they are incentivized to create sun safety social media messages to be posted on a sun safety social media account or a condition in which they are incentivized to create social media messages about how to use technology to support healthy lifestyle behaviors to be posted on a health technology social media account. The intervention will last 4 weeks. Feasibility outcomes include recruitment, retention, acceptability, participation, social media message engagement (likes, comments, shares), persuasive impact of messages, unprotected sun exposure, sun protection, and tanning behavior. This work will inform a fully powered randomized trial testing the efficacy of this intervention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Ages 18-30
* Tanned indoors or outdoors at least once in the past year
* Intends to tan indoors or outdoors this summer
* Daily user of any social media platform

Exclusion Criteria:

* No smartphone
* Does not use a social media platform daily
* Lives in a state with an average temperature \<75 degrees in May
* Inability to provide consent due to mental illness or a cognitive impairment
* Non-English speaking
* Prisoner

Primary outcomes:
measure: Recruitment
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Retention
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Acceptability
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Participation
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Post Engagement
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Desirability of Tanning
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Desirability of Tanning
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Desirability of Tanning Alternatives
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Desirability of Tanning Alternatives
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Persuasive Impact of Participant Messages
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Contamination
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Outdoor Tanning Intentions
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Outdoor Tanning Intentions
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Sun Exposure
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Sun Exposure
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Outdoor Tanning
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Outdoor Tanning
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Sun Protection
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Sun Protection
timeFrame: 4-week follow-up
measure: Indoor Tanning Behavior
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Indoor Tanning Behavior
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Sunburn
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Sunburn
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Outdoor Tanning Duration
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Outdoor Tanning Duration
timeFrame: Baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Storrs
country: United States
facility: University of Connecticut
state: Connecticut
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Connecticut
name: Sherry L Pagoto, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Pagoto SL, Waring ME, Groshon LC, Rosen AO, Schroeder MW, Goetz JM. Proof-of-Concept Feasibility Trial of a Dissonance-Based Sun Safety Intervention for Young Adult Tanners. Ann Behav Med. 2022 Aug 2;56(8):830-841. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaab116.