Engaging Moms on Teen Indoor Tanning Through Social Media

NCT02835807 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 03015R01CA192652
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,607
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 4

Brief Summary

A sample of mothers in Tennessee are recruited to a group-randomized pretest-posttest controlled trial evaluating the effect of a social media campaign to decrease mothers' permissiveness for daughters to indoor tan. The primary outcomes is mothers' permissiveness for indoor tanning by daughters. Secondary outcomes are mother's indoor tanning prevalence and their support for stricter bans on indoor tanning by minors.

Conditions

Skin Cancer

Keywords

skin cancer

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in Mothers' Permissiveness for Daughters to Indoor Tan

  Mothers' permissiveness for daughters to indoor tan will be assessed using 6 Likert-type items (1=strongly disagree, 5=strongly agree) assessing permissiveness toward their teenage daughter's indoor tanning. Example items include, "I would allow my daughter to indoor tan," and "I think it's OK for my daughter to indoor tan." Daughters will be asked the same 6 items to assess their perceptions of mothers' permissiveness. This measure has been used with a national teen sample. Maternal permissiveness will be assessed at baseline and both follow-ups by the combined average ratings across the six items.

  Baseline, 6-month, and 1 year follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Change in Mothers' Indoor Tanning Prevalence

  Baseline, 6-month, and 1 year follow-up

• Change in Daughters' Indoor Tanning Prevalence

  Baseline, 6-month, and 1 year follow-up

• Mothers' Support for Stricter Bans on Indoor Tanning by Minors

  13-months after randomization

Study Arms (2)

Health Chat including Indoor Tanning

EXPERIMENTAL

Facebook group, Health Chat, which provides information via posts within the private group about a wide variety of health topics (e.g. tobacco use, body image) with 25% of all of the content being about indoor tanning. Indoor tanning-related content was developed by the investigators and a social media marketing expert using information from published literature on IT risk factors, evidence-based intervention content from published trials targeting IT reduction, public health campaigns from major non-profit organizations (e.g., CDC, Skin Cancer Foundation, etc.), and investigator-developed video-recorded interviews of local mothers and professionals about the risks of indoor tanning, experiences with skin cancer, and mother-daughter communication role modeling.

Behavioral: Health Chat including Indoor Tanning

Health Chat excluding Indoor Tanning

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Facebook group, Health Chat, which provides information via posts within the private group about a wide variety of health topics (e.g. tobacco use, body image), but does not include any content about indoor tanning. The designated number of posts (25%) assigned to the indoor tanning content in the intervention group will be assigned to prescription drug use in the control arm. In order to keep number and frequency of posts standardized between the two groups, prescription drug use was selected to replace the indoor tanning content for the control arm.

Behavioral: Health Chat excluding Indoor Tanning

Interventions

Health Chat including Indoor Tanning BEHAVIORAL

Participants in the intervention join a private Facebook group to participate in the Health Chat program. The group is not viewable to the public, including other Facebook users. The content of Health Chat is designed primarily for mothers, the participants in the group. Posts will occur twice daily for 12 months for a total of 720 posts. Each group will be hosted by a moderator who is responsible for managing the intervention goals and mothers' engagement. Mothers likely will not continuously engage with a social media campaign that is limited only to indoor tanning. To engage mothers in the Health Chat program, content addressing several major health and wellness topics relevant to adolescent girls and their mothers will be posted.

Health Chat including Indoor Tanning

Health Chat excluding Indoor Tanning BEHAVIORAL

In the comparison condition, 25% of the posts will be about prescription drug abuse and misuse. Prescription drug abuse was selected as control content because it is a) completely unrelated to tanning, and b) an emerging issue of great interest and relevance to young adults in east Tennessee. This 25% segment of posts is the only difference between the intervention and comparison conditions.

Health Chat excluding Indoor Tanning

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Live in Tennessee
• Have a daughter aged 14 to 17
• Register for the social media campaign
• Consent to participate
• Read English
• Complete the online baseline survey
• Daughter provides assent to participate
• Have a Facebook account or be willing to create one

You may not qualify if:

• Not reading English
• Living outside Tennessee
• Daughter not assenting to participate
• Age 14-17
• Provide assent for mother to participate

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Klein Buendel, Inc.: lead
• East Tennessee State University: collaborator
• Colorado State University: collaborator
• University of Connecticut: collaborator
• National Cancer Institute (NCI): collaborator

Study Sites (4)

Colorado State University

Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523-0000, United States

Location

Klein Buendel, Inc.

Golden, Colorado, 80401, United States

Location

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut, 06269-1133, United States

Location

East Tennessee State University

Johnson City, Tennessee, 37604, United States

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Buller D, Walkosz B, Henry K, Woodall WG, Pagoto S, Berteletti J, Kinsey A, Divito J, Baker K, Hillhouse J. Promoting Social Distancing and COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions to Mothers: Randomized Comparison of Information Sources in Social Media Messages. JMIR Infodemiology. 2022 Aug 23;2(2):e36210. doi: 10.2196/36210. eCollection 2022 Jul-Dec.

  PMID: 36039372 DERIVED

• Buller DB, Pagoto S, Henry K, Berteletti J, Walkosz BJ, Bibeau J, Baker K, Hillhouse J, Arroyo KM. Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Social Media: Results in a Trial With Mothers of Daughters Aged 14-17. Front Digit Health. 2021 Sep 3;3:683034. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2021.683034. eCollection 2021.

  PMID: 34713152 DERIVED

• Pagoto SL, Baker K, Griffith J, Oleski JL, Palumbo A, Walkosz BJ, Hillhouse J, Henry KL, Buller DB. Engaging Moms on Teen Indoor Tanning Through Social Media: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2016 Nov 29;5(4):e228. doi: 10.2196/resprot.6624.

  PMID: 27899339 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Skin Neoplasms

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Skin Diseases; Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Study Officials

• David Buller, PhD

  Klein Buendel, Inc.

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Sherry Pagoto, PhD

  University of Connecticut

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: INDUSTRY
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 14, 2016
• First Posted: July 18, 2016
• Study Start: June 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: May 31, 2022
• Study Completion: May 31, 2022
• Last Updated: October 20, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (4)