NCT02544360

A Photoaging Mobile App Promoting Poster Campaign for Preventing Smoking in Secondary Schools

Smokerface: A Photoaging Mobile App Promoting Poster Campaign for Preventing Smoking in Secondary Schools: Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Giessen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether photoaging mobile app promoting poster campaigns are effective to reduce smoking prevalence among adolescents in Germany. This is measured via questionnaire.

Detailed description

This RCT will investigate a novel mean of school-based tobacco prevention: Photoaging app promoting poster campaigns. The effects are measured via questionnaire.

Conditions

• Tobacco Addiction
• Smoking Related Diseases
• Adolescent Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Photoaging mobile app promoting poster campaign.	Schools in this arm receive a photoaging mobile app promoting poster campaign revealing the effects of smoking on the users face via a self portrait (i.e. a "selfie").

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-09-01
• Primary completion: 2018-07-01
• Completion: 2018-07-01
• First posted: 2015-09-09
• Last updated: 2016-07-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany