Harnessing the Power of Technology: MOMBA for Postpartum Smoking

Yale University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Device: MoMba Live Long Smartphone application; Behavioral: Office contingency management; Behavioral: MoMba Live Long app & Sensordrone™ carbon-monoxide sensor; Device: Sensordrone™ carbon-monoxide sensor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02237898

1407014326

5R01CA195654 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Through a smartphone platform, financial incentives for smoking abstinence in postpartum women can be delivered remotely, thus minimizing the need for participants to come to the office to receive traditional contingency management.

Full description

The specific aims of the proposal are:

1. To develop through a 15-month pilot study, a novel smartphone-based system, Momba Smoking, that can be used in further relapse prevention trials for postpartum smokers.
2. To determine, through a pilot randomized controlled trial, the potential feasibility, acceptability, and methodological parameters that are necessary to design a subsequent, appropriately powered, randomized controlled trial of the Momba Smoking smartphone-based system.
3. To advance discovery and understanding on the use of technology to translate smoking cessation interventions from clinical to community settings through the training of the next generation of scientists.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women who are over the age of 18
• Speak English
• Second or third trimester of pregnancy
• Smoking in the third trimester of pregnancy
• No complicating general medical or psychiatric conditions (including marijuana use).

Exclusion criteria

• Receiving other smoking cessation medication
• Planning to move out of New Haven in the next 15 months
• Actively suicidal, psychotic or unable to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 2 patient groups

MoMba Contingency Management

Experimental group

Description:

Study will provide access to the web-based MoMba Live Long application \& Sensodrone™ carbon-monoxide sensor for purposes of researching the acceptability of the smartphone application, operating and functioning of it, and providing remote contingency management for smoking cessation to postpartum women.

Treatment:

Device: Sensordrone™ carbon-monoxide sensor

Behavioral: MoMba Live Long app & Sensordrone™ carbon-monoxide sensor

Device: MoMba Live Long Smartphone application

Office contingency management

Active Comparator group

Description:

Traditional contingency management with financial incentives delivered in-person in the office for smoking cessation to postpartum women

Treatment:

Device: Sensordrone™ carbon-monoxide sensor

Behavioral: Office contingency management