Clinical trial NCT02207036: Tobacco Status Project: Social Media Intervention for Young Adult Smokers
Official title: Social Media Intervention for Young Adult Smokers
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Smoking
Keywords: Tobacco
cigarettes
cessation
intervention
young adults
Internet
social media
mobile health
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2014-08-01
Enrollment: 501
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 randomized clinical trial will test the efficacy of a Facebook intervention based on the Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska and DiClemente) and US Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines with young adults who smoke cigarettes who are age 18 to 25 (N=480).

Detailed description: Participants will be randomized to one of two conditions: (1) a Facebook-delivered intervention tailored to readiness to quit smoking; or (2) the control condition (referral to the Smokefree.gov website). The intervention will include 12 weeks of Facebook-based messages and activities tailored to participants' stage of change.

Assessments will occur at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months follow-up. Assessments will include measures on smoking 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:

* ages 18-25 years old
* english literate
* have access to Smartphone or computer with camera
* indicate they go on Facebook "most" (≥ 4) days per week
* have smoked ≥100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 3 or more days of the week

Exclusion Criteria:

* do not read English
* younger than 18 or older than 25 years of age
* do not have access to a Smartphone or computer with a camera
* only go on Facebook 3 or fewer days a week
* have smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime or do not currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 3 or more days of the week

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
measure: 7-day point prevalence abstinence at 12 months
timeFrame: 12 months post baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Reduction in cigarettes smoked by at least 50% between Baseline and each follow-up timepoint
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post baseline
measure: Quit attempts
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 month post-baseline
Other outcomes:
measure: Health risk behaviors
timeFrame: 3, 6, and 12 months post baseline
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: Danielle A Ramo, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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: 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, 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: 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, Thrul J, Vogel EA, Delucchi K, Prochaska JJ. Multiple Health Risk Behaviors in Young Adult Smokers: Stages of Change and Stability over Time. Ann Behav Med. 2020 Jan 24;54(2):75-86. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaz025.
citation: McKelvey K, Ramo D. Conversation Within a Facebook Smoking Cessation Intervention Trial For Young Adults (Tobacco Status Project): Qualitative Analysis. JMIR Form Res. 2018 Sep 4;2(2):e11138. doi: 10.2196/11138.