Retraining automatic action tendencies for smoking using mobile phone-based approach-avoidance bias training
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Mental and Behavioural Disordersicotine addictionMental and behavioural disorders due to use of tobacco
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN15690771
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Siegen
- Brief Summary
2019 protocol in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31831080/ (added 09/12/2020)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
Smokers are included if they had smoked for at least six months at least six cigarettes per day, are active smokers at study entry and are motivated to quit smoking.
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion criteria are current alcohol or drug misuse or dependency, psychiatric illness, insufficient German language skills or uncorrected visual or auditory impairment.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> Measured at baseline, post-training and at a 4-week follow-up:<br> 1. Approach bias measured by the assessment version of the Approach-Avoidance Task<br> 2. Self-reported nicotine consumption measured via a questionnaire<br> follow-up. In addition, participants will be instructed to log smoked cigarettes when smoking by using a smartphone-based cigarette-tracking app. The logging period will cover 6 weeks, which is the study duration for each participant<br> 3. Abstinence from smoking determined through self-report and biochemically-verified expired CO (Smokerlyzer)<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> Measured at baseline, post-training and at a 4-week follow-up:<br> 1. Cognitive biases measured by a visual dot-probe task and the Implicit Association Task<br> 2. Smoking behavior assessed using Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND; Heatherton et al., 1991)<br> 3. Motivation to stop smoking assessed using Stages of Change Scale; Prochaska et al., 1991; Thoughts About Abstinence Scale; Hall et al., 1990<br> 4. Cigarette craving assessed using single item craving rating ranging from: 0 = not at all, to 5 = very much<br> 5. Explicit attitudes toward smoking assessed using semantic differential based on Swanson et al., 2001<br>