Effects of Social Media Use on Young Adults' E-Cigarette Use

NCT ID: NCT06142877

Last Updated: 2024-05-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-12-04
• Study Completion Date: 2025-03-01

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effects of social media use on e-cigarette use in young adults who use e-cigarettes. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does reducing social media use change young adults' e-cigarette use?
• Does reducing social media use change things such as young adults' mental health and what they see on social media?

Participants will complete surveys and submit screenshots showing how much time they spend on social media.

Researchers will compare young adults who reduce their social media use to young adults who use social media as usual, to see if their e-cigarette use differs.

Detailed Description

The overall goals of this project are to understand how young adults' social media use affects their nicotine vaping and to identify intervention targets that mitigate social media's impact on vaping. Prevalence of vaping and social media use among young adults have increased in tandem. Exposure to vaping-related social media content is common and is associated with vaping. Intense social media use appears to contribute to young adults' increased mental health symptoms, which are linked to tobacco product use. This project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of the causal links between social media use and vaping in young adulthood. Young adults with past-month vaping will report time spent on social media, vaping-related social media content exposure, social comparison on social media, mental health, and vaping behavior. After a 1-month baseline measurement period, they will be randomized to reduce their social media use (incentivized) or use social media as usual for a 3-month experimental period. Longitudinal within- and between-subjects analyses will test relationships between time spent on social media, risk factors for vaping, and vaping behavior. Specific research aims are to: (1) investigate the relationships between a reduction in social media use and: a) vaping content exposure, b) social comparison, and c) mental health, and (2) examine whether reducing social media use reduces past-month vaping days, vaping episodes per vaping day, and puffs per vaping episode.

Conditions

Electronic Cigarette Use

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Social Media Use Reduction

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Social Media Use Reduction

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants will be incentivized to reduce their social media use by a pre-specified percentage from baseline.

Social Media Use as Usual

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Social Media Use Reduction

Participants will be incentivized to reduce their social media use by a pre-specified percentage from baseline.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age 18-25
• Daily social media use
• Ownership of a smartphone
• Vaping (i.e., use of a nicotine e-cigarette) on 1-19 days of the past 30 days
• Residing in the United States

Exclusion Criteria

-Lack of capacity to provide informed consent

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 25 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Stanford University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Southern California

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Wisconsin, Madison

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Oklahoma

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Erin A Vogel, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Oklahoma

Locations

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Erin A Vogel, PhD

Role: CONTACT

erin-vogel@ouhsc.edu

405-271-8001 ext. 50493

Facility Contacts

Erin A Vogel, PhD

Role: primary

erin-vogel@ouhsc.edu

405-271-8001 ext. 50493

Other Identifiers

K01DA055073

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

15427

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id