Clinical trial NCT06142877: Effects of Social Media Use on Young Adults' E-Cigarette Use
Official title: Identifying and Addressing the Effects of Social Media Use on Young Adults' E-Cigarette Use: A Solutions-Oriented Approach
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Electronic Cigarette Use
Keywords: social media
young adult
e-cigarette
nicotine vaping
Lead sponsor: University of Oklahoma
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Stanford University
name: University of Southern California
name: University of Wisconsin, Madison
name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2023-11-22
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants will be randomized to one of two groups: 1) social media use reduction (intervention), or 2) social media use as usual (control).
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effects of social media use on e-cigarette use in young adults who use e-cigarettes. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does reducing social media use change young adults' e-cigarette use?
* Does reducing social media use change things such as young adults' mental health and what they see on social media?

Participants will complete surveys and submit screenshots showing how much time they spend on social media.

Researchers will compare young adults who reduce their social media use to young adults who use social media as usual, to see if their e-cigarette use differs.

Detailed description: The overall goals of this project are to understand how young adults' social media use affects their nicotine vaping and to identify intervention targets that mitigate social media's impact on vaping. Prevalence of vaping and social media use among young adults have increased in tandem. Exposure to vaping-related social media content is common and is associated with vaping. Intense social media use appears to contribute to young adults' increased mental health symptoms, which are linked to tobacco product use. This project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of the causal links between social media use and vaping in young adulthood. Young adults with past-month vaping will report time spent on social media, vaping-related social media content exposure, social comparison on social media, mental health, and vaping behavior. After a 1-month baseline measurement period, they will be randomized to reduce their social media use (incentivized) or use social media as usual for a 3-month experimental period. Longitudinal within- and between-subjects analyses will test relationships between time spent on social media, risk factors for vaping, and vaping behavior. Specific research aims are to: (1) investigate the relationships between a reduction in social media use and: a) vaping content exposure, b) social comparison, and c) mental health, and (2) examine whether reducing social media use reduces past-month vaping days, vaping episodes per vaping day, and puffs per vaping episode.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18-25
* Daily social media use
* Ownership of a smartphone
* Vaping (i.e., use of a nicotine e-cigarette) on 1-19 days of the past 30 days
* Residing in the United States

Exclusion Criteria:

-Lack of capacity to provide informed consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Past-month vaping days
timeFrame: Collected at baseline, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Episodes per vaping day
timeFrame: Collected at baseline, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo
measure: Puffs per vaping episode
timeFrame: Collected at baseline, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Oklahoma City
country: United States
facility: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
state: Oklahoma
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Oklahoma
name: Erin A Vogel, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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