Responses to E-cigarette Message Source and Presentation

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vaping

Treatments: Other: Expert, two-sided; Other: Peer, one-sided; Other: Peer, two-sided; Other: Expert, one-sided

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06274723

STUDY00001220

1K99CA281094-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to use crowdsourcing to test the effects of a message source (expert and peer) and message presentation types (one-sided and two-sided) to identify the optimal message type for young adults who vape and do not vape.

Enrollment: 848 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• US residents ages 18-24
• Fluent in English
• Reporting either vaping in the past 30 days or not having vaped in the past 30 days but susceptible to vaping

Exclusion criteria

• Age less than 18 or above 24
• Not fluent in English
• Not a member of partnering crowdsourcing behavioral research platform conducting the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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848 participants in 4 patient groups

Expert, one-sided

Experimental group

Description:

Participants assigned to the expert, one-sidedness condition will receive one-sided e-cigarette messages from an expert source.

Treatment:

Other: Expert, one-sided

Expert, two-sided

Experimental group

Description:

Participants assigned to the expert, two-sidedness condition will receive two-sided e-cigarette messages from an expert source.

Treatment:

Other: Expert, two-sided

Peer, one-sided

Experimental group

Description:

Participants assigned to the peer, one-sidedness condition will receive one-sided e-cigarette messages from a peer source.

Treatment:

Other: Peer, one-sided

Peer, two-sided

Experimental group

Description:

Participants assigned to the peer, two-sidedness condition will receive two-sided e-cigarette messages from a peer source.

Treatment:

Other: Peer, two-sided