APPSPIRE App in Preventing Students From Smoking

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cigarette Smoker

Current Every Day Smoker

Student

Treatments

Other: Survey Administration

Behavioral: APPSPIRE

Behavioral: Focus Group

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT01967082

P30CA016672 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

NCI-2018-03054 (Registry Identifier)

2013-0369 (Other Identifier)

R41DA035012 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial studies how well APPSPIRE, a smartphone app, works in preventing students from smoking. Technology-driven intervention programs, such as the APPSPIRE app, have the potential to increase access to health behavior treatments and therapies, such as tobacco cessation support, and provide effective prevention messaging.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Develop a prototype of the APPSPIRE (phone application [app] of a smoking prevention interactive experience).

II. At post assessment, students enrolled in the study will qualitatively provide information about the usability and usefulness for the prevention and cessation sites.

III. Investigate frequency of use of and exposure to APPSPIRE modules via an objective measure of general use.

IV. Investigate how feasible the program will be. V. Obtain a maintained use of APPSPIRE with high completeness and extent of completion.

VI. Evaluate change in stage of change from baseline to about 1 and 4-month follow-ups among participants.

OUTLINE:

Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 24 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Student at Houston Community College (HCC)
Speak and read English
Own an iPhone
Be enrolled in at least one class at HCC
Provide current contact information
Smoke 1 or more cigarettes a day (cessation group)
Have access to the internet (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale

Exclusion criteria

Does not plan to continue as a student at their campus sometime during the year of the study (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
Current tobacco use (prevention/advocacy group)