Tobacco Status Project: Social Media Intervention for Young Adult Smokers

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Smoking
• Interventions: Behavioral: Facebook intervention; Behavioral: Smokefree.gov

• Registration Number: NCT02207036
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

This randomized clinical trial will test the efficacy of a Facebook intervention based on the Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska and DiClemente) and US Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines with young adults who smoke cigarettes who are age 18 to 25 (N=480).

Detailed Description

Participants will be randomized to one of two conditions: (1) a Facebook-delivered intervention tailored to readiness to quit smoking; or (2) the control condition (referral to the Smokefree.gov website). The intervention will include 12 weeks of Facebook-based messages and activities tailored to participants' stage of change.

Assessments will occur at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months follow-up. Assessments will include measures on smoking patterns and thoughts about abstinence. All participants who report no past 7-day smoking will be asked to give biochemical verification of smoking status with saliva cotinine test kits that will be mailed to participants.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2014-05-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-07-30
• Study First Posted: 2014-08-01
• Study Start: 2014-10
• Primary Completion: 2016-11
• Study Completion: 2016-11
• Status Verified: 2017-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-05-05
• Last Update Posted: 2017-05-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 501

Inclusion Criteria

• ages 18-25 years old
• english literate
• have access to Smartphone or computer with camera
• indicate they go on Facebook "most" (≥ 4) days per week
• have smoked ≥100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 3 or more days of the week

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Exclusion Criteria

• do not read English
• younger than 18 or older than 25 years of age
• do not have access to a Smartphone or computer with a camera
• only go on Facebook 3 or fewer days a week
• have smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime or do not currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 3 or more days of the week

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Facebook intervention	Facebook intervention	Assignment to private group on Facebook with 3 months of content delivered to the group.
Referral	Smokefree.gov	Referral to smokefree.gov website

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
7-day point prevalence abstinence at 3 months	3 months post baseline	Reports of no smoking in the 7 days prior to the 3 month assessment. Biochemical verification of abstinence will also be recorded.
7-day point prevalence abstinence at 6 months	6 months post baseline	Reports of no smoking in the 7 days prior to the 6 month assessment. Biochemical verification of abstinence will also be recorded.
7-day point prevalence abstinence at 12 months	12 months post baseline	Reports of no smoking in the 7 days prior to the 12 month assessment. Biochemical verification of abstinence will also be recorded.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Reduction in cigarettes smoked by at least 50% between Baseline and each follow-up timepoint	3, 6, and 12 months post baseline	Reduction will be assessed at 3, 6, and 12 month follow-ups.
Quit attempts	3, 6, and 12 month post-baseline	Quit attempt during the follow-up period at 3, 6, and 12 months post-baseline.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of California San Francisco Department of Psychiatry; 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States