Clinical trial NCT03457480: Text Messages in Preventing Tobacco Use in Young Adults
Official title: Informing and Correcting Perceptions Regarding Tobacco Products Among Young Adults
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy Subject
Lead sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2018-03-07
Enrollment: 781
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This trial studies how well text messages work in preventing tobacco use in young adults. Text messaging may help to teach young adults about the risks of tobacco products.

Detailed description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To assess baseline knowledge and risk perceptions about the use of conventional and new and emerging tobacco products among a subset of community college students from the two participating Houston Community College (HCC) campuses (Central and Coleman campuses). (Phase 1.1) II. Test the text messages with university students enrolled in the health communications academic programs. (Phase 1.2) III. Assess the awareness, attitudes, receptivity, and comprehension of the harmful effects of conventional and new and emerging tobacco products among young adults. (Phase 2) IV. Identify the most effective combinations of text message framing for communicating information about the potential harmful effects of tobacco products to young adults. (Phase 2) V. To obtain an objective measure of the psychological (i.e., emotional and cognitive) effect of the messages on young adults. (Phase 3)

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:

I. Define and analyze key moderators of young adult awareness, attitudes, receptivity, and understanding of the harmful risks and constituents of conventional, new and emerging tobacco products. (Phase 2)

OUTLINE:

PHASE I: Participants attend focus group over 2 hours.

PHASE II: Participants receive 2 text messages per day for 30 days at baseline and after 3 months.

PHASE III: Participants read 64 computer messages with or without images over 30 minutes and have their facial expressions assessed.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18-25 (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
* Attend classes at either Houston Community College (HCC) Central Campus or Coleman Campus (Phase 1 and Phase 2), Spring Branch Campus (Phase 2) or the University of Houston (Phase 3)
* Own a smartphone capable of receiving texts from the study's text messaging ) resource (Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3)
* Use phone text-messaging features on a regular basis (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
* Provide cell phone number (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
* Speak and read English (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
* Enrolled in a communication program (Phase 1, health communication student review)
* Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale (Phase 3)

Exclusion Criteria:

-Currently a smoker (Phase 3)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Baseline knowledge and risk perceptions of Tobacco Use Questionnaire
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Focus Groups Questionnaire
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Perceived Risk Perception changes amongst young adults Questionnaire
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
measure: Information seeking and avoidance about tobacco products Questionnaire
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Risk perceptions related to tobacco products Questionnaire
timeFrame: Up to 8 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: M D Anderson Cancer Center
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
name: Alexander V Prokhorov
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Prokhorov AV, Calabro KS, Arya A, Russell S, Czerniak KW, Botello GC, Chen M, Yuan Y, Perez A, Vidrine DJ, Perry CL, Khalil GE. Mobile Text Messaging for Tobacco Risk Communication Among Young Adult Community College Students: Randomized Trial of Project Debunk. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2021 Nov 24;9(11):e25618. doi: 10.2196/25618.
citation: Prokhorov AV, Khalil GE, Calabro KS, Machado TC, Russell S, Czerniak KW, Botello GC, Chen M, Perez A, Vidrine DJ, Perry CL. Mobile Phone Text Messaging for Tobacco Risk Communication Among Young Adult Community College Students: Protocol and Baseline Overview for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 Oct 15;7(10):e10977. doi: 10.2196/10977.