Testing Familial Self-affirmation for Smoking Cessation

University of Manchester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-affirmation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03295409

Chun_1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evidence suggests that affirming the self can help people to make changes in their health behavior. Typically, people affirm a personally-important value, but evidence suggests that affirming the values of family ("familial self-affirmation") might exert stronger effects. The aim of the present study is to examine the effects of familial self-affirmation versus standard self-affirmation versus a control group on smoking cessation.

Enrollment: 123 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Smoker

Exclusion criteria

• Non-smoker
• Unable or unwilling to complete questionnaire

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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123 participants in 3 patient groups

Experimental: Standard self-affirmation

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention at the end of a questionnaire: The beginning to a sentence appears below. Below it are 4 different ways of completing the sentence. On the lines below, please write out the beginning of the sentence and then complete it with 1 of the 4 options we have given you. If I feel threatened or anxious, then I will... * think about the things I value about myself * remember things that I have succeeded in * think about what I stand for * think about things that are important to me If...___________________________________________________________________

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-affirmation

Experimental: Familial self-affirmation

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention at the end of a questionnaire: The beginning to a sentence appears below. Below it are 4 different ways of completing the sentence. On the lines below, please write out the beginning of the sentence and then complete it with 1 of the 4 options we have given you. If I feel threatened or anxious, then I will... * think about the things my family and I value about ourselves * remember things that my family and I have succeeded in * think about what my family and I stand for * think about things that are important to my family and me If...__________________________________________________________________

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-affirmation

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants are asked to complete a questionnaire.