Feasibility and Acceptability of a Text Messaging Intervention to Increase Smoking Cessation in Vietnam

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Smoking
• Interventions: Behavioral: Interventional Automated mobile phone text; Behavioral: Control Automated mobile phone text

• Registration Number: NCT03219541
• Lead Sponsor: NYU Langone Health

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop and then test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effect of a bidirectional text message smoking cessation intervention among Vietnamese smokers in Hanoi, Vietnam. The specific aim are: 1) To develop a smoking cessation text message library among Vietnamese smokers; 2) To evaluate message preferences, and the feasibility and acceptability of the bidirectional text message smoking cessation intervention; and 3) To assess the preliminary effect of a bidirectional mobile phone text message intervention on biochemically validated smoking abstinence.

Detailed Description

For two-arm randomized control (RCT) pilot study (AIM 3), 100 current smokers will be observed to examine the preliminary effect of bidirectional SMS smoking cessation intervention. Subjects will be randomized into two groups (intervention vs. control), and compare the carbon monoxide (CO) validated 7-day point prevalence smoking abstinence rates at 4-week follow-up between intervention group (SMS smoking cessation treatment) and control group (assessment texts only).

Investigators will administer surveys at baseline, 4- and 12-weeks, and assess daily cigarette consumption using text message surveys. After the intervention, they will randomly select 10 participants from the intervention group to attend semi-structured interviews to obtain more in-depth understanding about the usefulness, usability, and acceptability of the intervention. Findings from the pilot RCT will be used to derive an estimate of the effect size, power, and sample size for a full-scale efficacy trial.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-07-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-07-13
• Study First Posted: 2017-07-17
• Study Start: 2018-02-05
• Primary Completion: 2019-03-13
• Study Completion: 2019-03-13
• Status Verified: 2020-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-04-16
• Last Update Posted: 2020-04-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 190

Inclusion Criteria

• smoke ≥10 cigarettes per day
• capability to read and communicate
• plan to quit in the next 30 days
• has a mobile phone
• has experience using mobile phone text messaging during the past 6 months.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Under smoking cessation treatment or is participating in other tobacco cessation intervention
• pregnant or breastfeeding.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Interventional Automated mobile phone text	Interventional Automated mobile phone text	Subjects will receive 2 messages per day in the pre-quit phase, 3 messages per day on the quit date and the first week in the post-quit phase, and 2 messages per day in the last 3 weeks of the intervention. During the intervention, participants will receive a text question at the end of every day asking you "How many cigarettes have you smoked today?"
Control Texts	Control Automated mobile phone text	The intervention will consist of a 3-day pre-quit period and then a 4-week post-quit period. Participants will receive 2 text questions each week asking the number of smoking days in the past week and the average number of cigarette smoked per day.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intervention Acceptability	12 Weeks	Measured by ranking the mean score of each message

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of quit attempts	12 Weeks	Measured using the 12-item Cigarette Dependence Scale (CDS)
Percentage of respondents who have made at least one quit attempt during the intervention period,	12 Weeks	Measured using the Smoking Absitinence Questionnaire (SAQ)
Percent decrease in cigarette consumption per day at 2- and 4-week follow-ups compared to baseline	4 Weeks	Measured using the Smoking Absitinence Questionnaire (SAQ)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

New York University School of Medicine; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States