NCT03457480

Text Messages in Preventing Tobacco Use in Young Adults

Informing and Correcting Perceptions Regarding Tobacco Products Among Young Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 781 (actual)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This trial studies how well text messages work in preventing tobacco use in young adults. Text messaging may help to teach young adults about the risks of tobacco products.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To assess baseline knowledge and risk perceptions about the use of conventional and new and emerging tobacco products among a subset of community college students from the two participating Houston Community College (HCC) campuses (Central and Coleman campuses). (Phase 1.1) II. Test the text messages with university students enrolled in the health communications academic programs. (Phase 1.2) III. Assess the awareness, attitudes, receptivity, and comprehension of the harmful effects of conventional and new and emerging tobacco products among young adults. (Phase 2) IV. Identify the most effective combinations of text message framing for communicating information about the potential harmful effects of tobacco products to young adults. (Phase 2) V. To obtain an objective measure of the psychological (i.e., emotional and cognitive) effect of the messages on young adults. (Phase 3) EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES: I. Define and analyze key moderators of young adult awareness, attitudes, receptivity, and understanding of the harmful risks and constituents of conventional, new and emerging tobacco products. (Phase 2) OUTLINE: PHASE I: Participants attend focus group over 2 hours. PHASE II: Participants receive 2 text messages per day for 30 days at baseline and after 3 months. PHASE III: Participants read 64 computer messages with or without images over 30 minutes and have their facial expressions assessed.

Conditions

• Healthy Subject

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Computer-Assisted Intervention	Read computer messages
BEHAVIORAL	Focus Group	Attend focus group
OTHER	Informational Intervention	Receive text messages
OTHER	Survey Administration	Complete surveys about experience

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-20
• Primary completion: 2021-01-29
• Completion: 2021-01-29
• First posted: 2018-03-07
• Last updated: 2021-02-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States