A Smartphone Messaging Programme for Tobacco Industry Denormalisation - a Randomised Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 163
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- TID beliefs in parents
研究概览
简要总结
The study aims to test the effect a smartphone-based intervention on primary school students and their parents' attitudes towards tobacco industry and their tobacco-related communications.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Parents and children should all understand Chinese.
- •Parents should have a smartphone and use WhatsApp (a smartphone-based app)
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
TID
Messages will be sent 1-2 times per week containing information that aims to denormalise the tobacco industry.
干预措施: Smartphone-based messages (Other)
Sugar sweetened beverages
Messages will be sent 1-2 times per week containing information on the adverse health effects of sugar sweetened beverages.
干预措施: Smartphone-based messages (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
TID beliefs in parents
时间窗: 1 month
Parents will report their opinions towards 4 sentences: 1) Tobacco companies are a respectable industry; 2) the tobacco industry does everything it can to get young people to smoke; 2) the tobacco industry use many tactics to resist tobacco control regulations; 4) the tobacco industry deceived the public for financial interests. All the 4 questions have 5 options from definitely yes to definitely no. The options will be recoded into 0-4 or 4-0, as appropriate, with higher scores indicating more negative attitudes towards the industry. A sum of scores from the 4 questions will be deemed a measurement of TID beliefs.
TID beliefs in children
时间窗: 1 month
Students will report their opinions towards 4 sentences: 1) Tobacco companies are a respectable industry; 2) the tobacco industry does everything it can to get young people to smoke; 2) the tobacco industry use many tactics to resist tobacco control regulations; 4) the tobacco industry deceived the public for financial interests. All the 4 questions have 5 options from definitely yes to definitely no. The options will be recoded into 0-4 or 4-0, as appropriate, with higher scores indicating more negative attitudes towards the industry. A sum of scores from the 4 questions will be deemed a measurement of TID beliefs.
次要结局
- Tobacco related communication reported by parents(1 month)
- Sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) related communication reported by parents(1 month)
- Tobacco related communication reported by children(1 month)
- SSB related communication reported by children(1 month)
- Intention to smoke in children(1 month)
- Home exposure to secondhand smoke in children reported by children(1 month)
- Home exposure to secondhand smoke in children reported by parents(1 month)
- Parents' support for tobacco control(1 month)
- Negative attitude towards smoking in parents(1 month)
- Negative attitude towards smoking in children(1 month)
- Past 7-day consumption of SSB and water in children reported by children(1 month)
- Past 7-day consumption of SSB and water in children reported by parents(1 month)
研究者
Dr. Daniel Sai-Yin Ho
Principle investigator and associate professor
The University of Hong Kong