Vape-Free Text-Messaging: Pilot Study
- Conditions
- E-cigarette Use
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Standard care control using standard national resourcesBehavioral: E-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention
- Registration Number
- NCT05906082
- Lead Sponsor
- Seok Hyun Gwon
- Brief Summary
This is a small pilot randomized controlled trial to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the e-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention with young adults in rural areas.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
- English speaking
- 18-24 years
- everyday e-cigarette use in the past month
- ownership of a mobile phone or smartphone with texting and internet access abilities
- knowledge of how to use text messages
- plan on quitting e-cigarette use within one month
- home address in a rural county of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota
- Individuals who reported use of other tobacco products (e.g., cigarettes, smokeless tobacco) than e-cigarettes in the past month
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Standard care (Standard care control using standard national resources) Standard care control using standard national resources This standard care group will receive standard care resources from smokefree.gov. Intervention (E-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention) E-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Number of participants recruited and randomized Throughout 12 months Number of participants recruited and randomized
Retention rates (proportion of participants remained until 1 month post-intervention from enrollment) At 1 month Proportion of participants from enrollment to 1 month post-intervention or standard-care
Self-reported proportion of text messages read At 1 month Proportion of text messages read during the intervention or standard care at 1 month
Proportion of salivary cotinine samples returned At 1 month Proportion of salivary cotinine samples returned to the office lab for cotinine analysis
Concentration of cotinine in saliva At 1 month Biochemically verified abstinence evaluated by salivary cotinine samples
Nicotine dependence (Penn State Electronic Cigarette Dependence Index) At 1 month Nicotine dependence (minimum 0 to maximum 20, higher scores mean a worse outcome.)
Level of acceptability of the intervention At 1 month 1. When you had received our text messages from our VapeFreeTXT program 1 month ago, how many of our text messages did you read on a typical day? Not at all (1) Read about 25% messages (2) Read about half messages (3) Read about 75% messages (4) Read the entire messages (5)
2. How useful was our VapeFreeTXT program in helping you quit vaping? Not at all useful (1) Slightly useful (2) Moderately useful (3) Very useful (4) Extremely useful (5)
3. Did our VapeFreeTXT program make you think about quitting vaping? Not at all (1) Probably not (2) Neither yes nor no (3) Probably yes (4) Definitely yes (5)
4. Do you think our VapeFreeTXT program will change your vaping? Not at all (1) Probably not (2) Neither yes nor no (3) Probably yes (4) Definitely yes (5)
5. Would you recommend this program to a friend or others? Not at all (1) Probably not (2) Neither yes nor no (3) Probably yes (4) Definitely yes (5)Self-reported 7-days point prevalence abstinence from ENDS and other tobacco At 1 month Self-reported 7-days point prevalence abstinence from ENDS and other tobacco
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
🇺🇸Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States