Text Message Stop Smoking Among Young Population

NCT ID: NCT02379325

Last Updated: 2015-03-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-04-30
• Study Completion Date: 2014-06-30

Brief Summary

Smoking cessation is a priority for preventing smoking-attributable disease and reducing its burden. Quitting smoking at any age confers substantial and immediate health benefits, including reduced risks of stroke, cardiovascular disease and smoking-related cancers, and quitting smoking by the age of 30 reduces the risk of dying from tobacco-related diseases by almost 90%. The World Bank suggests that if adult cigarette consumption were to decrease by half in the year 2020, approximately 180 million tobacco-attributable deaths could be avoided. Therefore, promotion of smoking cessation has been proposed as a primary focus of tobacco control efforts, especially in developing countries where smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption are both still relatively high

Detailed Description

most risk factors are associated with more than one disease, and targeting those factors can reduce multiple causes of disease. Since smoking has 9% contributions on the leading global risk towards mortality in the world and this risk factor has resulted in multiple causes of disease for example, lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, chronic respiratory disease and other conditions therefore by quantifying the impact of this risk factors on diseases, may help to decrease the number of burden disease that is caused by smoking. University students age of 18 -24 are among the group of age that has the highest prevalence on smoking, thus it is necessary to targeting the high-risk people, who are most likely to benefit from the intervention. Population-based strategies seek to change the social norm by encouraging an increase in healthy behavior and a reduction in health risk. University students are in transition between the adolescence and early adulthood and developed unhealthy behaviors like cigarette smoking

Conditions

Young Adult Behavioral Change

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Lets Quit

Given text message

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Lets Quit

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Five tracks were created including "Not Ready", "Beginner", "Advance", "Relapse", and "Distraction". The "Distraction" track was combined with all of the other remaining 4 tracks. It was aimed as a distraction (as the name indicated) method to lighten the participants mood. It consisted of general information such as sports, fashion, dining, movies, and travelling.

pamphlets material

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Given pamphlets material on smoking and complication

Pamplets education

Given pamplets on smoking and complication

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Lets Quit

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Five tracks were created including "Not Ready", "Beginner", "Advance", "Relapse", and "Distraction". The "Distraction" track was combined with all of the other remaining 4 tracks. It was aimed as a distraction (as the name indicated) method to lighten the participants mood. It consisted of general information such as sports, fashion, dining, movies, and travelling.

pamphlets material

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Given pamphlets material on smoking and complication

Interventions

Lets Quit

Five tracks were created including "Not Ready", "Beginner", "Advance", "Relapse", and "Distraction". The "Distraction" track was combined with all of the other remaining 4 tracks. It was aimed as a distraction (as the name indicated) method to lighten the participants mood. It consisted of general information such as sports, fashion, dining, movies, and travelling.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

pamphlets material

Given pamphlets material on smoking and complication

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Smokers aged 18 - 24 years old
• Owned a mobile phone with text messaging capabilities
• Intention to quit
• No current use of nicotine replacement treatment or bupropion in the past month
• Not in treatment for any substance abuse disorder within the past year

Exclusion Criteria

• Not a smoker
• No desire to quit smoking-
• Who unwillingly to participate in this study

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 25 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Other Identifiers

Lets Quit

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id