Mobile Smoking Treatment for Spanish-speaking Latinx Smokers

University of Houston

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Dejar de Fumar Asistente (Mobile App); Behavioral: Impacto (Mobile App)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04417075

STUDY00001567

1R41DA048692-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The specific aims of the project are to develop and test a Spanish language, mobile app for smoking cessation called Impacto.

Full description

A total of 38 Spanish-speaking, Latinx smokers with high anxiety sensitivity (AS) will be recruited for this project. Eight (8) participants will complete user interviews in Spanish and thirty (30) participants will participate in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) for smoking cessation. Participants will be randomized to receive either the Impacto mobile app or a generic, Spanish language, smoking cessation, mobile app control (Dejar de Fumar Asistente).

Enrollment: 38 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. 18 to 55 year of age, 2) current smoker (i.e., at least 6 cigarettes/day), 3) not currently engaged in smoking cessation treatment, 4), high anxiety sensitivity (AS) score defined as an ASI-III score of ≥ 23, 5) motivation to quit > 5 on a 10 pt. scale, 6) Spanish speaking, and 7) currently own an Android-compatible mobile phone.

Exclusion criteria

1. use of other tobacco products (including e-cigarettes), 2) current non-nicotine substance dependence and/or current or intended participation in a concurrent substance abuse treatment, 3) ongoing psychotherapy of any duration directed specifically toward the treatment of anxiety or depression, or 4) active suicidality (i.e., suicidal ideation, intent, and/or plan) or current psychosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Impacto

Experimental group

Description:

This is the mobile app to be developed and evaluated in this project.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Impacto (Mobile App)

Dejar de Fumar Asistente

Active Comparator group

Description:

This is the mobile app that will serve as the control condition in evaluating the efficacy of Impacto.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Dejar de Fumar Asistente (Mobile App)