Clinical trial NCT03259360: A Facebook Intervention for Young Sexual and Gender Minority Smokers
Official title: A Facebook Intervention for Young Sexual and Gender Minority Smokers
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Tobacco Use
Smoking
Tobacco Dependence
Tobacco Use Disorder
Tobacco Use Cessation
Tobacco Smoking
Smoking Cessation
Smoking, Cigarette
Smoking, Tobacco
Keywords: Tobacco
Gender Identity Minority
Sexual Identity Minority
Cessation
Intervention
Young Adults
Social Media
Internet
Cigarette
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2017-08-23
Enrollment: 165
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: The 2-year research plan will test the Put It Out Project (POP) in a pilot randomized trial (N=120) compared to TSP and two historical control conditions. Participants will be young adults who smoke, identify as sexual or gender minorities, and use Facebook. The primary outcome will be biochemically verified 7-day abstinence from smoking at 3 and 6 months. Secondary outcomes will be a quit attempt (y/n), stage of change, and thoughts about tobacco abstinence at 3 and 6 mos.

Detailed description: Participants will be randomized to one of two conditions: (1) a Facebook-delivered intervention addressing tobacco use, tailored to SGM young adults; or (2) a 3-month Facebook intervention targeting tobacco use. Both interventions will include 90 days of Facebook-based messages and activities tailored to participants' readiness to quit smoking.

Assessments will occur at baseline, 3, and 6 months follow-up. Assessments will include measures on smoking, thoughts about abstinence, and SGM identity experiences. 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
* identifies as SGM

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
* does not identify as SGM

Primary outcomes:
measure: 7-day point prevalence abstinence at 3 months
timeFrame: 3 months post baseline
measure: 7-day point prevalence abstinence at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months post baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Reduction in cigarettes smoked by at least 50%
timeFrame: 3 and 6 months post baseline
measure: Tobacco use quit attempts
timeFrame: 3 and 6 months post baseline
measure: Readiness to quit tobacco
timeFrame: 3 and 6 months post baseline
measure: Thoughts About Tobacco Abstinence
timeFrame: 3 and 6 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: Gary L. Humfleet, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Ramo DE, Thrul J, Chavez K, Delucchi KL, Prochaska JJ. Feasibility and Quit Rates of the Tobacco Status Project: A Facebook Smoking Cessation Intervention for Young Adults. J Med Internet Res. 2015 Dec 31;17(12):e291. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5209.
citation: Thrul J, Klein AB, Ramo DE. Smoking Cessation Intervention on Facebook: Which Content Generates the Best Engagement? J Med Internet Res. 2015 Nov 11;17(11):e244. doi: 10.2196/jmir.4575.
citation: Ramo DE, Thrul J, Delucchi KL, Ling PM, Hall SM, Prochaska JJ. The Tobacco Status Project (TSP): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a Facebook smoking cessation intervention for young adults. BMC Public Health. 2015 Sep 15;15:897. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2217-0.
citation: Ramo DE, Rodriguez TM, Chavez K, Sommer MJ, Prochaska JJ. Facebook Recruitment of Young Adult Smokers for a Cessation Trial: Methods, Metrics, and Lessons Learned. Internet Interv. 2014 Apr;1(2):58-64. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2014.05.001.
citation: Ramo DE, Liu H, Prochaska JJ. A mixed-methods study of young adults' receptivity to using Facebook for smoking cessation: if you build it, will they come? Am J Health Promot. 2015 Mar-Apr;29(4):e126-35. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.130326-QUAL-128. Epub 2014 Feb 27.
citation: Vogel EA, Ramo DE, Meacham MC, Prochaska JJ, Delucchi KL, Humfleet GL. The Put It Out Project (POP) Facebook Intervention for Young Sexual and Gender Minority Smokers: Outcomes of a Pilot, Randomized, Controlled Trial. Nicotine Tob Res. 2020 Aug 24;22(9):1614-1621. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntz184.