Chatbot Counselling for Smoking Cessation in Youths

NCT ID: NCT06470776

Last Updated: 2025-11-20

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

154 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-07-07

Study Completion Date

2025-06-25

Brief Summary

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The goal of this pilot trial is to develop and examine the trial feasibility and acceptability of a chatbot for smoking cessation in youth smokers. Specific aims include:

1. To assess how many youth smokers accept the invitation to participate in the trial
2. To assess the retention of the participants through 6 months after treatment initiation
3. To assess the acceptability of the chatbot in terms of participants' compliance and usability rating of the chatbot.
4. To estimate the intervention effect on abstinence outcomes
5. To explore the participants' perception and experiences in the chatbot

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Tobacco Use Smoking Cessation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Chatbot counselling

Smoking cessation counselling delivered by chatbot

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Chatbot counselling

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Access to a chatbot that provides smoking cessation counselling based on the 5A's (Ask, Advice, Assess, Assist, Arrange follow-up) and 5R's (Risk, Relevance, Rewards, Relevance, Roadblocks, Repetition) tobacco intervention models from baseline to 3-month post-baseline.

Peer counselling

Smoking cessation counselling delivered by peer counsellors

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Peer counselling

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Usual treatment provided by the Youth Quitline, i.e., telephone counselling for smoking cessation based on the 5As and 5Rs models delivered by trained peer counsellors at baseline and 1 week, 1 month and 3 months post-baseline

Interventions

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Chatbot counselling

Access to a chatbot that provides smoking cessation counselling based on the 5A's (Ask, Advice, Assess, Assist, Arrange follow-up) and 5R's (Risk, Relevance, Rewards, Relevance, Roadblocks, Repetition) tobacco intervention models from baseline to 3-month post-baseline.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Peer counselling

Usual treatment provided by the Youth Quitline, i.e., telephone counselling for smoking cessation based on the 5As and 5Rs models delivered by trained peer counsellors at baseline and 1 week, 1 month and 3 months post-baseline

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Hong Kong residents aged 25 years or younger
2. Used a tobacco product in the past 30 days, including cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, heated tobacco products, etc.
3. Able to communicate in Chinese
4. Own a smartphone with internet access

Exclusion Criteria

1. Diagnosed with a mental disease or on regular psychotropic drugs, or
2. Participating in other ongoing smoking cessation studies.
Maximum Eligible Age

25 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Health and Medical Research Fund

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

The University of Hong Kong

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Tzu Tsun Luk

Research Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Tzu Tsun Luk, PhD, RN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The University of Hong Kong

Locations

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HKU Youth Quitline

Hong Kong, , Hong Kong

Site Status

Countries

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Hong Kong

Other Identifiers

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20212551

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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