Clinical trial NCT03163303: Smoking Tobacco and Drinking Study
Official title: Using Facebook to Address Smoking and Heavy Drinking in Young Adults
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE4
Conditions: Smoking
Heavy Episodic Drinking
Keywords: Tobacco
Cigarettes
Alcohol
Cessation
Intervention
Young adults
Internet
Social media
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2017-05-23
Enrollment: 179
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This trial will test the efficacy of a 3-month intervention on Facebook targeting tobacco use and heavy episodic drinking against a 3-month Facebook intervention targeting tobacco use. Both groups will be offered a nicotine patch starter kit. The primary outcome is verified 7-day point prevalence abstinence from smoking at 3, 6, and 12 months.

Detailed description: Participants will be randomized to one of two conditions: (1) a Facebook-delivered intervention addressing tobacco use and heavy episodic drinking, tailored to readiness to quit smoking; or (2) a 3-month Facebook intervention targeting tobacco use. Both interventions will include 12 weeks of Facebook-based messages and activities tailored to participants' readiness to quit smoking.

Assessments will occur at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months follow-up. Assessments will include measures on smoking and drinking patterns and thoughts about abstinence. All participants who report no past 7-day smoking will be asked to give biochemical verification of smoking status with saliva cotinine test kits that will be mailed to participants.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* read English
* between 18 and 25 years of age
* indicate they use Facebook "most" (≥ 4) days per week
* have smoked ≥100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 4 or more days of the week
* have had at least one heavy drinking episode (5+ for men, 4+ for women) in the past month.

Exclusion Criteria:

* do not read English
* are not between 18 and 25 years of age
* indicate they do not use Facebook "most" (≥ 4) days per week
* have not smoked ≥100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 4 or more days of the week
* have not had at least one heavy drinking episode (5+ for men, 4+ for women) in the past month.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants With Reported 7-day Point Prevalence Abstinence at 3 Months
timeFrame: 3 months post baseline
measure: Number of Participants With Reported 7-day Point Prevalence Abstinence at 6 Months
timeFrame: 6 months post baseline
measure: Number of Participants With Reported 7-day Point Prevalence Abstinence at 12 Months
timeFrame: 12 months post baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants With a Reduction in Cigarettes Smoked Over Time
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post baseline
measure: Number of Participants Whom Attempted to Quit Tobacco Use During the Course of Treatment
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 month post-baseline
measure: Number of Participant Reporting a Readiness to Quit Tobacco Use Over Time
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline
measure: Average Score on the Thoughts About Abstinence Questionnaire (Smoking)
timeFrame: At Baseline
measure: Average Number of Days of Heavy Episodic Drinking (HED) Over Time
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline
measure: Median Number of Drinks Per Week Over Time
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline
measure: Average Score on the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test - Concise (AUDIT-C) Over Time
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline
measure: Alcohol Quit Attempt
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline
measure: Readiness to Change Alcohol Use Over Time
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline
measure: Average Score on the Thoughts About Abstinence Questionnaire (Heavy Episodic Drinking) Over Time
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline
measure: Number of Participants With Reported Combined Use Using Tobacco or Alcohol Over Time
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: San Francisco
country: United States
facility: University of California San Francisco Department of Psychiatry
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
name: Derek Satre, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Meacham MC, Ramo DE, Prochaska JJ, Maier LJ, Delucchi KL, Kaur M, Satre DD. A Facebook intervention to address cigarette smoking and heavy episodic drinking: A pilot randomized controlled trial. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2021 Mar;122:108211. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108211. Epub 2020 Nov 23.
citation: Ramo DE, Meacham MC, Kaur M, Corpuz ES, Prochaska JJ, Satre DD. Development of a social media-based intervention targeting tobacco use and heavy episodic drinking in young adults. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2019 Apr 1;14(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s13722-019-0141-9.