Clinical trial NCT03174730: Mindset Intervention for Nicotine Dependence
Official title: Investigating a Technology Delivered Growth Mindset Intervention for Smoking Cessation.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Psychology, Social
Smoking Cessation
Smoking (Tobacco) Addiction
Keywords: smoking
smartphone
technology
addiction
Lead sponsor: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-06-02
Enrollment: 398
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: All participants will gain access to SmartQuit, a smartphone based app with tools for quitting smoking. In order to test whether the growth mindset intervention is effective, smokers will be randomly assigned to either an experimental group, where they will additionally get growth mindset content or to a control group.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study evaluates a new digitally delivered mindset based intervention in addition to a smartphone application (app) for smoking cessation. Participants will be provided an app (SmartQuit) that teaches them skills to quit, and will be randomly assigned to either receive a growth mindset intervention or to a control group.

Detailed description: Want to quit smoking? Welcome to the MIND Study, conducted by researchers at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Join now to get a smartphone app-based quit smoking program that includes:

* Personalized plans for quitting
* Help with dealing with urges to smoke
* Information on nicotine withdrawal
* Help staying motivated
* Tracking progress with quitting
* A certificate of completion once you complete the program
* Scientifically-based information on quit medications

The MIND study gives you all these and more to help you quit smoking and live a happier, healthier life. For more information, visit mind.fredhutch.org.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

(1) age 18 or older, (2) smokes at least five cigarettes daily for at least past 12 months, (3) wants to quit in the next 30 days, (4) interested in learning skills to quit smoking, (5) resides in US, (6) has at least daily access to their own smartphone, (7) knows how to login and download a smartphone application from their smartphone, (8) willing and able to read in English, (9) not participating in other smoking cessation interventions (including our other intervention studies). To increase follow-up retention, eligibility criteria also include: (10) willing to complete one follow-up survey, (11) provide email, phone, and mailing address.

Exclusion Criteria:

Opposite of inclusion.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Engagement with smoking cessation program
timeFrame: 2 months
measure: Cessation of smoking
timeFrame: 2 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Cessation of smoking
timeFrame: 2 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Mediation of engagement
timeFrame: 2 months
measure: Mediation of cessation
timeFrame: 2 months
measure: Moderation by mindset
timeFrame: 2 months
measure: Number of cigarettes smoked per day (reduction)
timeFrame: 2 months
Locations:
city: Seattle
country: United States
facility: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
state: Washington
Study officials:
References:
citation: Sridharan V, Shoda Y, Heffner J, Bricker J. A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Web-Based Growth Mindset Intervention to Enhance the Effectiveness of a Smartphone App for Smoking Cessation. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2019 Jul 9;7(7):e14602. doi: 10.2196/14602.