Young Adults' Responses to Anti-smoking Messages

NCT01954407 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 818764
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2,200
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether anti-smoking messages based on promising smoking-related beliefs increase anti-smoking intentions more than messages based on less-promising beliefs. Never smokers and former smokers will be randomly assigned to view different anti-smoking messages, and will answer questions measuring smoking-related beliefs, intentions, and message ratings online.

Conditions

Smoking

Keywords

smoking-related messages; anti-smoking messages; smoking-related beliefs; anti-smoking intentions

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Smoking Intentions

  Respondents answer three items (to create a scale) about the likelihood of using various tobacco products over the next year.

  1 day

• Smoking-related beliefs

  Respondents will answer five smoking-related belief items (to create a scale) that are relevant to the messages they saw in addition to other smoking-related belief items. They will answer how likely/unlikely they think the beliefs are as a result of smoking (or not smoking).

  1 day

Study Arms (3)

Control: No Smoking-Related Messages

NO INTERVENTION

Respondents will answer questions about smoking-related beliefs and intentions to smoke before receiving the treatment smoking-related messages (they will still receive them at the end to make the groups comparable and still expose them to anti-smoking messages).

Promising Smoking-Related Messages

EXPERIMENTAL

Respondents will receive one of the possible sets of promising smoking-related messages and these should affect smoking-related intentions to a greater extent (make respondents less likely to smoke) than less-promising smoking-related messages.

Behavioral: Smoking-Related Messages

Less-Promising Smoking-Related Messages

EXPERIMENTAL

Respondents will receive one of the possible sets of less-promising smoking-related messages and these should affect their intentions to a lesser extent than the promising smoking-related messages.

Behavioral: Smoking-Related Messages

Interventions

Smoking-Related Messages BEHAVIORAL

Less-Promising Smoking-Related Messages; Promising Smoking-Related Messages

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 25 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• U.S. participants 18-25 years of age who are part of the Survey Sampling International (SSI) panel
• Never smoker (never puffed a cigarette) or former smoker (have at least puffed a cigarette but have not smoked in the past 30 days)

You may not qualify if:

• Less than 18 or greater than 25 years of age
• For the main study, they must not have participated in the pilot study in which we will test the how convincing these messages are
• For both studies, they must not have participated in a previous study in which we originally generated these theme sets
• Current smokers (people who have smoked in the past 30 days)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pennsylvania: lead
• National Cancer Institute (NCI): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Smoking

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Robert Hornik, PhD

  University of Pennsylvania

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 26, 2013
• First Posted: October 1, 2013
• Study Start: September 1, 2013
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2013
• Study Completion: December 1, 2013
• Last Updated: June 15, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-06

Locations

US (1)