Enhanced Smoking Cessation for University Students

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cigarette Smoker; Current Every Day Smoker

Treatments: Other: Survey Administration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00941395

P30CA016672 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

NCI-2018-02552 (Registry Identifier)

2009-0351 (Other Identifier)

R01CA069425 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial studies how well a new smoking cessation and prevention intervention works in enhancing smoking cessation for university students. The new intervention may be easier to use for students to quit smoke.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To establish the feasibility of a new smoking cessation and prevention intervention including two new modules addressing alcohol use and depression.

II. Demonstrate the feasibility of a smoking prevention website.

OUTLINE: Participants are assigned to 1 of 2 arms.

ARM I: Participants who currently smoke complete a survey over 30 minutes and discuss the survey results with the counselor over 30 minutes at week 2. Participants also complete 3 internet surveys over 20 minutes.

ARM II: Participants who currently do not smoke complete a survey over 30 minutes and discuss the survey results with the counselor over 30 minutes at week 2.

After completion of study, participants are followed up at 3 months.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• CESSATION ARM: Student at University of Houston Central Campus or Texas A&M University
• CESSATION ARM: Smoke 1 or more cigarettes a day
• CESSATION ARM: Speak and read English
• CESSATION ARM: Signed informed consent and an acknowledgement of participation requirements
• CESSATION ARM: Be enrolled in at least one class at respective campus at baseline
• CESSATION ARM: Provide current contact information
• CESSATION ARM: Have access to the Internet
• PREVENTION ARM: Student at University of Houston Central Campus or Texas A&M University
• PREVENTION ARM: Speak and read English
• PREVENTION ARM: Signed Informed Consent and an acknowledgement of participation requirements
• PREVENTION ARM: Be enrolled in at least one class at respective campus at baseline
• PREVENTION ARM: Provide current contact information
• PREVENTION ARM: Have access to the Internet
• PREVENTION ARM: Evidence of smoking susceptibility (as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale)
• CESSATION ARM: Willing to answer all survey questions on all survey instruments throughout the duration of study
• PREVENTION ARM: Willing to answer all survey questions on all survey instruments throughout the duration of study

Exclusion criteria

• CESSATION ARM: Evidence of major depressive disorder (as defined by PHQ-9 [Patient Health Questionnaire-9])
• CESSATION ARM: Evidence of severe alcohol abuse (as defined by AUDIT [Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test] measure)
• PREVENTION ARM: Current tobacco use
• PREVENTION ARM: Does not plan to continue as a student at their campus for at least one more year
• CESSATION ARM: Does not plan to continue as a student at their campus for at least one more year
• PREVENTION ARM: Evidence of major depressive disorder (as defined by PHQ-9 [Patient Health Questionnaire-9])
• PREVENTION ARM: Evidence of severe alcohol abuse (as defined by AUDIT measure)
• CESSATION ARM: Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm I (smoker, survey)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants who currently smoke complete a survey over 30 minutes and discuss the survey results with the counselor over 30 minutes at week 2. Participants also complete 3 internet surveys over 20 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Survey Administration

Arm II (non-smoker, survey)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants who currently do not smoke complete a survey over 30 minutes and discuss the survey results with the counselor over 30 minutes at week 2.

Treatment:

Other: Survey Administration