Effects of Message Content on Intention to Quit Smoking

University of Stirling

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Peripheral Artery Disease

Treatments

Behavioral: Loss Framed Message

Behavioral: Gains Framed Message

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02138032

CUNN-001-RCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

Message framing involves "the presentation of choice alternatives, either in a positive or negative manner" (Huber, Neale, & Northcraft, 1987; p.137). Positively framed health messages contain potential gains of participating/refraining in specific health behaviour. Alternatively, negatively framed health messages contain potential losses of participating/refraining in specific health behaviour (Verlhiac, Chappe, & Meyer, 2011). The primary aim and rationale of this study will be to investigate which type of framing has the greatest effect on intentions to quit smoking in patients with vascular arterial disease. The secondary aim is to investigate what other factors may have an effect on intention to quit and also what factors play a part in a patient's intention to quit smoking.

Enrollment

17 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Peripheral Artery Disease
daily smoker

Exclusion criteria

psychiatric illness or those who are not literate in English will be excluded from the study as informed consent cannot be obtained. Also, patients who are already participating in any other research involving smoking cessation will be excluded