Health Communications for Adults Smoking Nondaily

Bethany Shorey Fennell

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Targeted Smoking Messages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07296848

R03CA286623 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

94633

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to develop smoking health risk messaging targeted to adults who smoke some days, but not smoke every day (nondaily). The main purpose is to learn what type of smoking health risk messages will be most likely to encourage adults nondaily to quit completely. Aim 1will iteratively obtain qualitative feedback from adults smoking nondaily on initial message designs, resulting in 12 final messages. Aim 2 will test message properties using a 2 (health vs. social messages) x 2 (positive vs. negative messages) between subjects design to ascertain which messages promote proximal outcomes associated with quitting cigarettes (e.g., new knowledge, risk perceptions, motivation and intentions to quit).

Enrollment: 320 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• individuals that report smoking at least one combustible cigarette per day on 4-28 days in the past 30 days
• able to read/write in English
• able to give informed consent
• no history of daily smoking

Exclusion criteria

• enrolled in smoking cessation treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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320 participants in 4 patient groups

Positive Health Messaging (PH)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Targeted Smoking Messages

Negative Health Messaging (NH)

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Targeted Smoking Messages

Positive Social Messaging (PS)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Targeted Smoking Messages

Negative Social Messaging (NS)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Targeted Smoking Messages