Attentional Bias Modification Training for E-cigarette Users

NCT ID: NCT05112562

Last Updated: 2022-11-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-06-09
• Study Completion Date: 2024-12-31

Brief Summary

Aims are to (1) evaluate attentional bias to e-cigarette cues between the intervention and control groups at post-intervention as compared to the pre-intervention; and (2) test the feasibility and efficacy of the intervention at post-intervention. To accomplish these aims, a theory-driven parallel, controlled 2-arm randomized clinical trial will be conducted with young adult e-cigarette users (approximately N = 50). Outcomes are attentional bias to e-cigarette cues and abstinence outcomes including nicotine dependence, and arousal/urges for e-cigarette use.

Conditions

E-cigarette Use; Tobacco Use Cessation

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Computerized attentional bias modification training

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Computerized attentional bias modification training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

In intervention is designed to train participants to disengage attention from potent e-cigarette cues and is based on the well-established attention retraining paradigm for other psychopathologies.

Placebo attention control training

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Placebo attention control training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This control training is very similar to the intervention's overall task structure and stimuli. The only difference is that the this control program is designed to exert no systematic manipulation on the attention deployment pattern between the two stimulus categories, thereby yielding no significant impact on the level of attentional bas toward ENDS-related cues

Interventions

Computerized attentional bias modification training

In intervention is designed to train participants to disengage attention from potent e-cigarette cues and is based on the well-established attention retraining paradigm for other psychopathologies.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Placebo attention control training

This control training is very similar to the intervention's overall task structure and stimuli. The only difference is that the this control program is designed to exert no systematic manipulation on the attention deployment pattern between the two stimulus categories, thereby yielding no significant impact on the level of attentional bas toward ENDS-related cues

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 and 29 years
• Those who use ENDS exclusively, not combining with other tobacco, for 3 consecutive months
• Those who own a smartphone.

Exclusion Criteria

• Current medication or psychosocial treatment for ENDS dependence
• Serious alcohol-use problems (≥ 26 points on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test)
• Ophthalmic conditions impeding eye-tracking
• Current psychiatric/psychosocial treatment for other mental health disorders in the DSM-5 (e.g., schizophrenia)
• Pregnancy.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 29 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Seok Hyun Gwon, PhD, RN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Locations

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Seok Hyun Gwon, PhD, RN

Role: CONTACT

gwon@uwm.edu

414-229-6462

Han Joo Lee, PhD

Role: CONTACT

leehj@uwm.edu

Facility Contacts

Seok Hyun Gwon, PhD, RN

Role: primary

gwon@uwm.edu

414-229-6462

Han Joo Lee, PhD

Role: backup

leehj@uwm.edu

Other Identifiers

20.172

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id