A Text Messaging Trial to Test Vaping Health Messages Optimized to Young Adults' Vaping Status
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Intervention, Control.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Vaping Behaviors, Message Exposure, Young Adults. Basic parameters: 18 years — 24 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
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Official title
Identifying and Examining the Effects of Source and Presentation on Responses to Electronic Cigarette Public Education Messages in Young Adult Vapers and Non-vapers
Overview
The goal of this study is to examine if e-cigarette education messages delivered using a source and presentation tailored to one's vaping status influences young adults' vaping behaviors. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Does receiving e-cigarette education messages presented using a source (expert or peer) and sidedness (one or two-sided) optimized for the current vaper group influence vaping cessation among young adults who vape daily? 2. Does receiving e-cigarette education messages presented using a source (expert or peer) and sidedness (one or two-sided) optimized for the non-vaper group influence vaping initiation among young adults who are susceptible to vaping? Participants will be randomly assigned to either the treatment (receiving messages tailored to one's vaping status) or the control (receiving non-tobacco messages) condition and receive SMS three times per week over the course of 6 months. They will complete self-report assessment and show salivary cotinine results for nicotine testing at 4 timepoints.
Interventions
- Other Intervention
Intervention involves e-cigarette education messages tailored to participants' vaping status that will be sent out in SMS via text messaging three times per week over the course of 6 months. - Other Control
Participants will receive non-tobacco messages (messages about sun safety) three times per week over the course of 6 months.
Primary outcome measures
- Self-reported vaping [Time frame: Baseline, six-month]
- Biochemical confirmation of vaping [Time frame: Baseline, one-month, three-month, six-month]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
- Harm perceptions [Time frame: Baseline, one-month, three-month, six-month]
- Message perceptions [Time frame: One-month, three-month, six-month]
- Message liking [Time frame: One-month, three-month, six-month]
- Number of days of past-30-day e-cigarette use [Time frame: From enrollment to the end of study at 24 weeks.]
- E-cigarette accessibility [Time frame: Baseline, one-month, three-month, six-month]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- 18-24 years old
- Fluent in English
- Not currently using tobacco products other than e-cigarettes at the time of enrollment
- Have a mobile phone to send and receive text messages
Exclusion criteria
- Age below 18 or above 24
- Not being fluent in English
- Currently using tobacco products other than e-cigarettes
- Not having a mobile phone
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- University of Hawaii Cancer Center — Honolulu
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07038317 · 4R00CA281094