NCT04083469

Identifying Student Opinion Leaders to Lead E-cigarette Interventions

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 686 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research will explore the feasibility of leveraging social network analysis to identify 6th grade opinion leaders to lead a school-based e-cigarette intervention. The project will be conducted for 6th graders in 8 schools in the Pittsburgh area.

Detailed description

Specific Aim 1: Participants will be recruited from 8 Pittsburgh-area schools. The investigators will conduct a social network survey for all 6th graders in each school. Students will be asked to identify their closest peers based on several relationship dynamics: friendship, opinion leadership, academic support, and personal support. Specific Aim 2: The investigators will adapt modules from CATCH My Breath, an evidence-based, school-implemented e-cigarette intervention supported by University of Texas and MD Anderson Cancer Center. The 8 schools will be randomized to receive the intervention led by either (1) an adult content-expert or (2) a peer-nominated opinion leader to students who nominated them or (3) a peer-nominated opinion leader to students who did not nominate them. Surveys will be administered before and after the intervention. Primary outcomes will be acceptability and feasibility measures, including (1) recruitment and (2) retention rates. Secondary outcomes will include e-cigarette use, intention-to-use e-cigarettes, and knowledge about e-cigarettes.

Conditions

• E-Cig Use
• Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Peer-Led Peer-Elected Intervention	The intervention will be given to students by a peer opinion leader that the students in the audience elected. The intervention is a version of CATCH My Breath curriculum that has been modified to facilitate peer leadership.
BEHAVIORAL	Adult-Led Intervention	The intervention will be given to students by an adult. The intervention is a version of CATCH My Breath curriculum that has been modified to match the Peer-Led Intervention curriculum but is able to be administered by an adult.
BEHAVIORAL	Peer-Led Non-Elected Intervention	The intervention will be given to students by a peer opinion leader that was elected by other students. The intervention is a version of CATCH My Breath curriculum that has been modified to facilitate peer leadership.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-15
• Primary completion: 2020-06-30
• Completion: 2020-06-30
• First posted: 2019-09-10
• Last updated: 2020-07-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States