Tobacco Status Project: Social Media Intervention for Young Adult Smokers

NCT02207036 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: A1196785K23DA032578
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 501
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This randomized clinical trial will test the efficacy of a Facebook intervention based on the Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska and DiClemente) and US Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines with young adults who smoke cigarettes who are age 18 to 25 (N=480).

Conditions

Smoking

Keywords

Tobacco; cigarettes; cessation; intervention; young adults; Internet; social media; mobile health

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• 7-day point prevalence abstinence at 3 months

  Reports of no smoking in the 7 days prior to the 3 month assessment. Biochemical verification of abstinence will also be recorded.

  3 months post baseline

• 7-day point prevalence abstinence at 6 months

  Reports of no smoking in the 7 days prior to the 6 month assessment. Biochemical verification of abstinence will also be recorded.

  6 months post baseline

• 7-day point prevalence abstinence at 12 months

  Reports of no smoking in the 7 days prior to the 12 month assessment. Biochemical verification of abstinence will also be recorded.

  12 months post baseline

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Reduction in cigarettes smoked by at least 50% between Baseline and each follow-up timepoint

  3, 6, and 12 months post baseline

• Quit attempts

  3, 6, and 12 month post-baseline

Other Outcomes (1)

• Health risk behaviors

  3, 6, and 12 months post baseline

Study Arms (2)

Facebook intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Assignment to private group on Facebook with 3 months of content delivered to the group.

Behavioral: Facebook intervention

Referral

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Referral to smokefree.gov website

Behavioral: Smokefree.gov

Interventions

Facebook intervention BEHAVIORAL

90 days of Facebook messaging, weekly Ask the Doctor sessions

Facebook intervention

Smokefree.gov BEHAVIORAL

referral to the NCI Smokefree.gov website

Referral

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• ages 18-25 years old
• english literate
• have access to Smartphone or computer with camera
• indicate they go on Facebook "most" (≥ 4) days per week
• have smoked ≥100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 3 or more days of the week

You may not qualify if:

• do not read English
• younger than 18 or older than 25 years of age
• do not have access to a Smartphone or computer with a camera
• only go on Facebook 3 or fewer days a week
• have smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime or do not currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 3 or more days of the week

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, San Francisco: lead
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of California San Francisco Department of Psychiatry

San Francisco, California, 94143, United States

Location

Related Publications (6)

• Ramo DE, Liu H, Prochaska JJ. A mixed-methods study of young adults' receptivity to using Facebook for smoking cessation: if you build it, will they come? Am J Health Promot. 2015 Mar-Apr;29(4):e126-35. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.130326-QUAL-128. Epub 2014 Feb 27.

  PMID: 24575728 BACKGROUND

• Ramo DE, Thrul J, Delucchi KL, Ling PM, Hall SM, Prochaska JJ. The Tobacco Status Project (TSP): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a Facebook smoking cessation intervention for young adults. BMC Public Health. 2015 Sep 15;15:897. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2217-0.

  PMID: 26374203 BACKGROUND

• Ramo DE, Thrul J, Chavez K, Delucchi KL, Prochaska JJ. Feasibility and Quit Rates of the Tobacco Status Project: A Facebook Smoking Cessation Intervention for Young Adults. J Med Internet Res. 2015 Dec 31;17(12):e291. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5209.

  PMID: 26721211 BACKGROUND

• Ramo DE, Rodriguez TM, Chavez K, Sommer MJ, Prochaska JJ. Facebook Recruitment of Young Adult Smokers for a Cessation Trial: Methods, Metrics, and Lessons Learned. Internet Interv. 2014 Apr;1(2):58-64. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2014.05.001.

  PMID: 25045624 RESULT

• Ramo DE, Thrul J, Vogel EA, Delucchi K, Prochaska JJ. Multiple Health Risk Behaviors in Young Adult Smokers: Stages of Change and Stability over Time. Ann Behav Med. 2020 Jan 24;54(2):75-86. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaz025.

  PMID: 31157881 DERIVED

• McKelvey K, Ramo D. Conversation Within a Facebook Smoking Cessation Intervention Trial For Young Adults (Tobacco Status Project): Qualitative Analysis. JMIR Form Res. 2018 Sep 4;2(2):e11138. doi: 10.2196/11138.

  PMID: 30684432 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Smoking

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Danielle A Ramo, PhD

  University of California, San Francisco

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 13, 2014
• First Posted: August 1, 2014
• Study Start: October 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2016
• Study Completion: November 1, 2016
• Last Updated: May 8, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)