NCT02613689

Addressing Tobacco Use Disparities Through an Innovative Mobile Phone Intervention

Addressing Tobacco Use Disparities Through an Innovative Mobile Phone Intervention: The Text to Forgo Smokeless Tobacco

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Duke University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a Scheduled Gradual Reduction (SGR) intervention via Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging plus SMS Support Messages in decreasing smokeless tobacco use in a rural population.

Detailed description

Participants will be randomized to either the Scheduled Gradual Reduction (SGR) group or the control group. All participants in both groups will complete surveys at the baseline, end of program, and 6 month time points. All participants in both groups will also receive supportive counseling text messages at various times during the day over a period of 4 weeks. Participants assigned to the SGR intervention group will receive their intervention, in addition to the supportive counseling messages received by the control group, via text message over a period of four weeks. Participants will initially report their smokeless tobacco use according to their usual habit, and over the course of the intervention be directed via text message precise times to start and stop each instance of smokeless tobacco use, gradually reducing the occurrences of use.

Conditions

• Smokeless Tobacco Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Scheduled Gradual Reduction (SGR)	Participants in this group will group will receive the Scheduled Gradual Reduction (SGR) smokeless tobacco cessation reduction intervention via text message over a period of four weeks. Participants will initially report their smokeless tobacco use according to their usual habit, and over the course of the intervention be directed via text message precise times to start and stop each instance of smokeless tobacco use, gradually reducing the occurrences of use. In addition, this group will also receive the support messages that are sent to the control group.
BEHAVIORAL	Text Messages	Participants in this group will receive text messages about smokeless tobacco cessation in the form of counseling messages at various times throughout the day over a period of four weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-01
• Primary completion: 2018-11-01
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2015-11-24
• Last updated: 2019-01-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States