A Photoaging Mobile App Promoting Poster Campaign for Preventing Smoking in Secondary Schools (Smokerface)

University of Giessen

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Smoking Related Diseases; Adolescent Smoking; Tobacco Addiction

Treatments: Behavioral: Photoaging mobile app promoting poster campaign.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02544360

040890

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether photoaging mobile app promoting poster campaigns are effective to reduce smoking prevalence among adolescents in Germany. This is measured via questionnaire.

Full description

This RCT will investigate a novel mean of school-based tobacco prevention: Photoaging app promoting poster campaigns. The effects are measured via questionnaire.

Enrollment: 12,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students from Germany aged 9 to 14 years at baseline attending grades six and seven of regular German secondary schools (such as grammar, general, intermediate or comprehensive school) are eligible.

Exclusion criteria

• Older or younger pupils or pupils from other school types or countries or schools who previously participated in an event where the Smokerface app was presented are not eligible.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Schools in this arm receive a photoaging mobile app promoting poster campaign revealing the effects of smoking on the users face via a self portrait (i.e. a "selfie").

Treatment:

Behavioral: Photoaging mobile app promoting poster campaign.

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group consists of schools participating in the survey but not receiving the intervention.