Testing Methods of Self-persuasion Involving Cigarette Smoking

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Smoking
• Interventions: Behavioral: Tailored Feedback; Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing

• Registration Number: NCT02069483
• Lead Sponsor: Duke University

Brief Summary

Smokers who are not actively engaged in quitting will participate in a study using self-generated text and audio text messages containing reasons to quit smoking.

Detailed Description

Participants must have a smartphone that can accept text messages from an email address and link to a study related website to hear audio recordings, and be willing to receive a text message each weekday for two weeks between 8-9am as part of the study. After completing a phone screener, participants will complete a baseline phone survey. Within two weeks of the baseline survey, participants will come to an in-person session. At that time they will be randomized with equal probability to one of two conditions: 1) Motivational Interviewing (MI), or 2) tailored feedback on reasons for quitting. After undergoing MI or receiving tailored feedback, participants will be asked to generate message that they feel would motivate them to quit. These messages will be both text and audio. After generating and reviewing these messages, participants will then evaluate these messages before ending the laboratory session. Starting two days after their laboratory session, between 8:00am and 9:00am, staff will send participants one of the self-generated text messages with a link to also hear the message; this process will last for two weeks. Within a week of stopping sending messages, participants will be asked to complete a final phone survey to elicit smoking behaviors and provided feedback on the messaging.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2014-02-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-02-20
• Study First Posted: 2014-02-24
• Study Start: 2014-04
• Status Verified: 2014-09
• Primary Completion: 2014-09
• Study Completion: 2014-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-09-25
• Last Update Posted: 2014-09-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 48

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years old or older
• not actively engaged in trying to quit smoking
• must have smoked 100 cigarettes to date
• must smoke at least 1 cigarette per day
• must own smartphone capable of receiving messages from study email
• must agree to receive text messages between 8-9am each weekday for 2 weeks

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Tailored Feedback	Tailored Feedback	Subjects will use reasons for quitting that they provided during the phone baseline for the text messages and audio recordings.
Motivational Interviewing	Motivational Interviewing	Subjects will engage in motivational interviewing and come up with messages to motivate quitting during the activity.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of messages generated during in-person visit	one hour

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of messages	before and after completion of the trial, approximately 3 weeks	Smokers' evaluation of message (e.g., persuasiveness, accuracy/credibility, ease of generating messages).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Duke University Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Durham, North Carolina, United States