Text Messages in Preventing Tobacco Use in Young Adults

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Subject

Treatments: Other: Informational Intervention; Behavioral: Focus Group; Other: Computer-Assisted Intervention; Other: Survey Administration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03457480

P50CA180906 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2013-0474 (Other Identifier)

NCI-2018-01277 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial studies how well text messages work in preventing tobacco use in young adults. Text messaging may help to teach young adults about the risks of tobacco products.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To assess baseline knowledge and risk perceptions about the use of conventional and new and emerging tobacco products among a subset of community college students from the two participating Houston Community College (HCC) campuses (Central and Coleman campuses). (Phase 1.1) II. Test the text messages with university students enrolled in the health communications academic programs. (Phase 1.2) III. Assess the awareness, attitudes, receptivity, and comprehension of the harmful effects of conventional and new and emerging tobacco products among young adults. (Phase 2) IV. Identify the most effective combinations of text message framing for communicating information about the potential harmful effects of tobacco products to young adults. (Phase 2) V. To obtain an objective measure of the psychological (i.e., emotional and cognitive) effect of the messages on young adults. (Phase 3)

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:

I. Define and analyze key moderators of young adult awareness, attitudes, receptivity, and understanding of the harmful risks and constituents of conventional, new and emerging tobacco products. (Phase 2)

OUTLINE:

PHASE I: Participants attend focus group over 2 hours.

PHASE II: Participants receive 2 text messages per day for 30 days at baseline and after 3 months.

PHASE III: Participants read 64 computer messages with or without images over 30 minutes and have their facial expressions assessed.

Enrollment: 781 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18-25 (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
• Attend classes at either Houston Community College (HCC) Central Campus or Coleman Campus (Phase 1 and Phase 2), Spring Branch Campus (Phase 2) or the University of Houston (Phase 3)
• Own a smartphone capable of receiving texts from the study's text messaging ) resource (Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3)
• Use phone text-messaging features on a regular basis (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
• Provide cell phone number (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
• Speak and read English (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
• Enrolled in a communication program (Phase 1, health communication student review)
• Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale (Phase 3)

Exclusion criteria

-Currently a smoker (Phase 3)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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781 participants in 1 patient group

Prevention (text messages, computer messages)

Experimental group

Description:

PHASE I: Participants attend focus group over 2 hours. PHASE II: Participants receive 2 text messages per day for 30 days at baseline and after 3 months. PHASE III: Participants read 64 computer messages with or without images over 30 minutes and have their facial expressions assessed.

Treatment:

Other: Computer-Assisted Intervention

Other: Informational Intervention

Behavioral: Focus Group

Other: Survey Administration