NCT03500965

Pictorial Warning Labels and Memory for Relative and Absolute Cigarette Health-risk Information Over Time in Teens

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 422 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ohio State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Pictorial cigarette warning labels (PWLs) are thought to increase risk knowledge, but experimental research has not examined PWLs' longer term effects on memory for health risks. In this study, teens who have experimented with smoking or are considered vulnerable to smoking are repeatedly exposed to text-only vs. graphic warning labels paired with numeric risk information. This study will allow us to assess the extent to which reactions to warnings remain consistent over time and influence future smoking intentions. We will also assess the impact of graphic images on memory for smoking risk information presented in absolute and (a smokers lifetime risk of getting a smoking related disease), or relative (a smokers risk of getting a smoking related disease, compared to the risk of non-smokers) formats.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Smoking, Cigarette

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	text-only PWL	control condition (no image)
BEHAVIORAL	graphic PWL	pictorial warning
BEHAVIORAL	absolute risk	Percentage risk information for smoking-related diseases for smokers
BEHAVIORAL	relative risk	Percentage risk information for smoking-related diseases for smokers and non-smokers

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-05-25
• Primary completion: 2018-01-09
• Completion: 2018-01-09
• First posted: 2018-04-18
• Last updated: 2018-04-18