Development of a Chatbot for Smoking Cessation Counselling for Youth Smokers Enrolled in the Youth Quitline: a Pilot Randomised Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 154
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Recruitment rate
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this pilot trial is to develop and examine the trial feasibility and acceptability of a chatbot for smoking cessation in youth smokers. Specific aims include:
- To assess how many youth smokers accept the invitation to participate in the trial
- To assess the retention of the participants through 6 months after treatment initiation
- To assess the acceptability of the chatbot in terms of participants' compliance and usability rating of the chatbot.
- To estimate the intervention effect on abstinence outcomes
- To explore the participants' perception and experiences in the chatbot
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- — 至 25 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Hong Kong residents aged 25 years or younger
- •Used a tobacco product in the past 30 days, including cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, heated tobacco products, etc.
- •Able to communicate in Chinese
- •Own a smartphone with internet access
排除标准
- •Diagnosed with a mental disease or on regular psychotropic drugs, or
- •Participating in other ongoing smoking cessation studies.
研究组 & 干预措施
Chatbot counselling
Smoking cessation counselling delivered by chatbot
干预措施: Chatbot counselling (Behavioral)
Peer counselling
Smoking cessation counselling delivered by peer counsellors
干预措施: Peer counselling (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Recruitment rate
时间窗: Through recruitment completion, about 9 months
Number of participants divided by the number of eligible subjects
Retention rate
时间窗: 6 months
Number of participants completed the follow-up divided by the number of participants
Biochemically-validated tobacco abstinence
时间窗: 6 months after randomisation
Defined as a negative result of the iScreen OFD test for measuring salivary cotinine (with a cut-off of lower than 30ng/mL)
次要结局
- Self-reported 50% smoking reduction(6 months after randomisation)
- Self-reported 24-hour quit attempt(6 months after randomisation)
- Self-reported 7-day point-prevalence tobacco abstinence(6 months after randomisation)
- Self-reported 30-day point-prevalence tobacco abstinence(6 months after randomisation)
- Self-reported 7-day point-prevalence tobacco abstinence(3 months after randomisation)
- Self-reported 30-day point-prevalence tobacco abstinence(3 months after randomisation)
- Self-reported 24-hour quit attempt(3 months after randomisation)
- Self-reported 50% smoking reduction(3 months after randomisation)
研究者
Tzu Tsun Luk
Research Assistant Professor
The University of Hong Kong