A Brief Intervention Programme on Alternative Smoking Products
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 1,000
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Attitudes towards ASPs
研究概览
简要总结
The brief intervention comprises a 4-page worksheet used in the classroom (main intervention) and subsequent weekly e-messages through WhatsApp (booster intervention). The worksheets for both groups will be printed in colour, and mainly contain pictures and simple texts. Students will be asked to provide smartphone numbers of themselves and their parents for receiving the booster interventions. After sending 4-6 e-messages in 4 weeks, students will complete a 1-month follow-up assessment.
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 understand Chinese.
- •Parents' consent to their children's participation.
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Attitudes towards ASPs
时间窗: Immediately after intervention
Students will report their opinions towards 2 questions: 1. Do you think the usage of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products will harm your health? There will be 11 options from definitely no harm to definitely harm. 2. Do you accept the primary students use e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products? There will be 11 options from definitely unacceptable to definitely acceptable.
Knowledge on the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs
时间窗: Immediately after intervention
Students will report their opinions towards 5 statements: 1. Children who use e-cigarettes are more likely to smoke cigarettes in the future; 2. Hazards of secondhand smoke of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products are slight; 3. Nicotine content in heated tobacco products is lower than in the cigarettes, which is more difficult to get addicted; 4. There are a variety of carcinogens in the heated tobacco products; 5. Tobacco industries do everything they can to get young people to use tobacco products. All the statements have 5 options from definitely no to definitely yes. The options will be recoded into 0-4 or 4-0, as appropriate, with higher scores indicating knowing more about the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs.
次要结局
- Intention to use ASPs(1-month follow-up)
- Attitudes towards ASPs(1-month follow-up)
- Knowledge on the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs(1-month follow-up)
研究者
Dr. Daniel Sai-Yin Ho
Principle investigator and associate professor
The University of Hong Kong