A Mobile Text Messaging Intervention for Indoor Tanning Addiction

Georgetown University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Indoor Tanning

Treatments: Behavioral: Mobile text messaging intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04055272

STUDY00000474

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test the effects of messages communicating the risks (i.e., health harms, addictiveness) of indoor tanning delivered via mobile text messaging among young adult women ages 18 to 30 years who meet screening criteria for indoor tanning addiction.

Full description

This is a two arm randomized controlled trial to test the effects of messages communicating the risks of indoor tanning delivered via mobile text messaging as a strategy for promoting cessation among young adult women who meet screening criteria for indoor tanning addiction. Eligible participants are young adult women ages 18 to 30 years who meet screening criteria for indoor tanning addiction and have access to the internet and a personal mobile phone to complete study procedures. Participants will complete baseline measures and then be randomized to the study arms. The text messaging intervention exposure in the intervention arm will last for four weeks. The control arm will be given basic indoor tanning education information and will not receive any intervention. Follow up assessments capturing study outcomes will be administered at 1 month (i.e., immediately post-intervention) and three months post-intervention.

Enrollment: 265 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female
• Age between 18 and 30 years
• Meet self-report criteria for tanning addiction
• Has access to the internet to complete study procedures
• Has personal mobile phone to complete study procedures

Exclusion criteria

• Male
• Age less than 18 or greater than 30
• Does not meet self-report criteria for tanning addiction
• Does not have access to the internet to complete study procedures
• Does not have a personal mobile phone to complete study procedures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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265 participants in 2 patient groups

Text messaging

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the text messaging intervention arm receive mobile text messages communicating the risks of indoor tanning and motivating cessation on their mobile phones

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile text messaging intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control arm receive no intervention