Testing Methods of Self-persuasion Involving Cigarette Smoking

NCT ID: NCT02069483

Last Updated: 2014-09-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 48 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-04-30
• Study Completion Date: 2014-09-30

Brief Summary

Smokers who are not actively engaged in quitting will participate in a study using self-generated text and audio text messages containing reasons to quit smoking.

Detailed Description

Participants must have a smartphone that can accept text messages from an email address and link to a study related website to hear audio recordings, and be willing to receive a text message each weekday for two weeks between 8-9am as part of the study. After completing a phone screener, participants will complete a baseline phone survey. Within two weeks of the baseline survey, participants will come to an in-person session. At that time they will be randomized with equal probability to one of two conditions: 1) Motivational Interviewing (MI), or 2) tailored feedback on reasons for quitting. After undergoing MI or receiving tailored feedback, participants will be asked to generate message that they feel would motivate them to quit. These messages will be both text and audio. After generating and reviewing these messages, participants will then evaluate these messages before ending the laboratory session. Starting two days after their laboratory session, between 8:00am and 9:00am, staff will send participants one of the self-generated text messages with a link to also hear the message; this process will last for two weeks. Within a week of stopping sending messages, participants will be asked to complete a final phone survey to elicit smoking behaviors and provided feedback on the messaging.

Conditions

Smoking

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Motivational Interviewing

Subjects will engage in motivational interviewing and come up with messages to motivate quitting during the activity.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Motivational Interviewing

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will engage in motivational interviewing in order to generate motivating messages related to quitting smoking.

Tailored Feedback

Subjects will use reasons for quitting that they provided during the phone baseline for the text messages and audio recordings.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Tailored Feedback

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will self-generate reasons they want to quit smoking during the baseline survey and record these reasons during the in-person activity.

Interventions

Motivational Interviewing

Subjects will engage in motivational interviewing in order to generate motivating messages related to quitting smoking.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Tailored Feedback

Subjects will self-generate reasons they want to quit smoking during the baseline survey and record these reasons during the in-person activity.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years old or older
• not actively engaged in trying to quit smoking
• must have smoked 100 cigarettes to date
• must smoke at least 1 cigarette per day
• must own smartphone capable of receiving messages from study email
• must agree to receive text messages between 8-9am each weekday for 2 weeks

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Duke University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Isaac Lipkus, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Duke University School of Nursing

Locations

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

Pro00048251

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id