A Brief Intervention Programme on Alternative Smoking Products
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
- Enrollment
- 1,000
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Attitudes towards ASPs
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The brief intervention comprises a 4-page worksheet used in the classroom (main intervention) and subsequent weekly e-messages through WhatsApp (booster intervention). The worksheets for both groups will be printed in colour, and mainly contain pictures and simple texts. Students will be asked to provide smartphone numbers of themselves and their parents for receiving the booster interventions. After sending 4-6 e-messages in 4 weeks, students will complete a 1-month follow-up assessment.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Parents and children should understand Chinese.
- •Parents' consent to their children's participation.
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Attitudes towards ASPs
Time Frame: Immediately after intervention
Students will report their opinions towards 2 questions: 1. Do you think the usage of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products will harm your health? There will be 11 options from definitely no harm to definitely harm. 2. Do you accept the primary students use e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products? There will be 11 options from definitely unacceptable to definitely acceptable.
Knowledge on the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs
Time Frame: Immediately after intervention
Students will report their opinions towards 5 statements: 1. Children who use e-cigarettes are more likely to smoke cigarettes in the future; 2. Hazards of secondhand smoke of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products are slight; 3. Nicotine content in heated tobacco products is lower than in the cigarettes, which is more difficult to get addicted; 4. There are a variety of carcinogens in the heated tobacco products; 5. Tobacco industries do everything they can to get young people to use tobacco products. All the statements have 5 options from definitely no to definitely yes. The options will be recoded into 0-4 or 4-0, as appropriate, with higher scores indicating knowing more about the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs.
Secondary Outcomes
- Intention to use ASPs(1-month follow-up)
- Attitudes towards ASPs(1-month follow-up)
- Knowledge on the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs(1-month follow-up)
Investigators
Dr. Daniel Sai-Yin Ho
Principle investigator and associate professor
The University of Hong Kong