Clinical trial NCT01967082: APPSPIRE App in Preventing Students From Smoking
Official title: APPSPIRE: Expanding the Reach of an Innovative Tobacco Control Program for Youth
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cigarette Smoker
Current Every Day Smoker
Student
Lead sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2013-10-22
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 24
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This trial studies how well APPSPIRE, a smartphone app, works in preventing students from smoking. Technology-driven intervention programs, such as the APPSPIRE app, have the potential to increase access to health behavior treatments and therapies, such as tobacco cessation support, and provide effective prevention messaging.

Detailed description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Develop a prototype of the APPSPIRE (phone application \[app\] of a smoking prevention interactive experience).

II. At post assessment, students enrolled in the study will qualitatively provide information about the usability and usefulness for the prevention and cessation sites.

III. Investigate frequency of use of and exposure to APPSPIRE modules via an objective measure of general use.

IV. Investigate how feasible the program will be. V. Obtain a maintained use of APPSPIRE with high completeness and extent of completion.

VI. Evaluate change in stage of change from baseline to about 1 and 4-month follow-ups among participants.

OUTLINE:

Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Student at Houston Community College (HCC)
* Speak and read English
* Own an iPhone
* Be enrolled in at least one class at HCC
* Provide current contact information
* Smoke 1 or more cigarettes a day (cessation group)
* Have access to the internet (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
* Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale

Exclusion Criteria:

* Does not plan to continue as a student at their campus sometime during the year of the study (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
* Current tobacco use (prevention/advocacy group)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Frequency of APPSPIRE application (app) use
timeFrame: Up to 4 months
measure: The Feasibility of the tobacco control program.
timeFrame: Up to 4 months
measure: The Completeness with the Percentages of Participants surveyed.
timeFrame: Up to 4 months
measure: The extent of completion for the modules AppSPIRE.
timeFrame: Up to 4 months
measure: The Stages of the Change Scale
timeFrame: Baseline up to 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: Houston Community College
state: Texas
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
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