NCT05946031

Testing the ETM: Examination and Comparison of Different Methods

Testing the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace: Examination and Comparison of Different Methods

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 87 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will experimentally assess the comparability of in-lab and remote procedures with hypothetical and real ETM purchase outcomes.

Detailed description

In a between-group within-subject repeated measures design, participants will be randomly assigned to one of two procedures (in-lab or remote; between-group) and complete two conditions (real and hypothetical; within-subject), which include six trials assessing increasing cigarette prices.

Conditions

• Cigarette Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Reat ETM	Exclusive cigarette smokers will be recruited and will be exposed to the real ETM condition in which tobacco purchases are real and they receive products from one randomly selected trial.
DRUG	Hypothetical ETM	Exclusive cigarette smokers will be recruited and will be exposed to the hypothetical ETM condition in which tobacco purchases are hypothetical and they don't receive any products.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-07-28
• Primary completion: 2025-08-14
• Completion: 2025-08-14
• First posted: 2023-07-14
• Last updated: 2025-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated drug study