APPSPIRE App in Preventing Students From Smoking

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cigarette Smoker; Current Every Day Smoker; Student
• Interventions: Behavioral: APPSPIRE; Behavioral: Focus Group; Other: Survey Administration

• Registration Number: NCT01967082
• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Brief Summary

This trial studies how well APPSPIRE, a smartphone app, works in preventing students from smoking. Technology-driven intervention programs, such as the APPSPIRE app, have the potential to increase access to health behavior treatments and therapies, such as tobacco cessation support, and provide effective prevention messaging.

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Develop a prototype of the APPSPIRE (phone application \[app\] of a smoking prevention interactive experience).

II. At post assessment, students enrolled in the study will qualitatively provide information about the usability and usefulness for the prevention and cessation sites.

III. Investigate frequency of use of and exposure to APPSPIRE modules via an objective measure of general use.

IV. Investigate how feasible the program will be. V. Obtain a maintained use of APPSPIRE with high completeness and extent of completion.

VI. Evaluate change in stage of change from baseline to about 1 and 4-month follow-ups among participants.

OUTLINE:

Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-10-16
• Study First Submitted: 2013-10-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-10-17
• Study First Posted: 2013-10-22
• Status Verified: 2020-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-01-08
• Study Completion: 2020-01-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-01-13
• Last Update Posted: 2020-01-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Student at Houston Community College (HCC)
• Speak and read English
• Own an iPhone
• Be enrolled in at least one class at HCC
• Provide current contact information
• Smoke 1 or more cigarettes a day (cessation group)
• Have access to the internet (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
• Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale

Exclusion Criteria

• Does not plan to continue as a student at their campus sometime during the year of the study (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
• Current tobacco use (prevention/advocacy group)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Prevention (focus group, APPSPIRE app, survey)	APPSPIRE	Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.
Prevention (focus group, APPSPIRE app, survey)	Focus Group	Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.
Prevention (focus group, APPSPIRE app, survey)	Survey Administration	Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The Completeness with the Percentages of Participants surveyed.	Up to 4 months	Completeness will be measured as the percentage of participants who continue to use AppSPIRE until the 4 month follow up survey.
Frequency of APPSPIRE application (app) use	Up to 4 months	Will be measured in minutes per day and with descriptive statistics. Will measure using mean, median and standard deviation for continuous variables.
The Feasibility of the tobacco control program.	Up to 4 months	Feasibly will be measured by multiplying the variable of two concepts: ease of use and ability to fit the program into routine schedules.
The extent of completion for the modules AppSPIRE.	Up to 4 months	The extent of completion includes the various modules of AppSPIRE. High extent of completion is obtained if 75% of the participants have completed all modules of AppSPIRE.
The Stages of the Change Scale	Baseline up to 4 months	A validated measure, The Stages of Change Scale, will be used to clarify smokers into 3 categories: pre-contemplation, contemplation and preparation.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Houston Community College; 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States

M D Anderson Cancer Center; 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States