NCT06284369

Video Messages for Smoking Cessation Campaign

Developing, Evaluating and Testing Video Messages for a Smoking Cessation Campaign Among Mongolian Adults

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Loma Linda University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

240 adult smokers will be recruited. Subjects will be asked to view video messages that encourage smoking cessation. The effect of these videos will be assessed.

Detailed description

This study will use a parallel, two-arm randomized control trial design. After consenting to participate in the study, Participants will be invited to fill out the online questionnaire form which will include one randomly selected ad exposure. The participation in the study will contain three parts: pre-test, video-ad stimuli, and post-test. Pretest will contain questions on the demographic information and readiness to quit smoking. Video ad stimuli segment will contain the selected video ad. The posttest will contain the manipulation check, readiness to quit smoking, message engagement, and PME questions. A randomization table will be generated using Research Randomizer software (ResearchRandomizer.org; Social Psychology Network) and subjects will be randomized to video ad 1 or video ad 2 in permuted blocks of 2. The video ads are a part of the "Victory" media campaign designed for the tobacco cessation clinical project in Mongolia. Each video ad ends with the slogan "Every attempt is a victory". Video Ad 1. This video ad was designed using a loss-framed message and emphasized the costs of continuing to smoke (losses) demonstrating the severe negative health consequences of smoking (e.g., complicated COVID-19, ICU hospitalization). The main actor in the ad is a famous young male Mongolian singer. Video Ad 2. The video emphasized the benefits of quitting (gains) using a female actor. After the viewing of the video ad participants will be asked to report reaction by completing an online posttest survey.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Developing, Evaluating and Testing Video Messages for a Smoking Cessation Campaign	To explore how smokers reacted to the gain-framed and loss-framed video ad
BEHAVIORAL	Health Message Framing	Gain- framed messages in health communication are constructed by framing a particular outcome as either a benefit or a cost, relative to a specific reference poin

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-01
• Primary completion: 2025-03-01
• Completion: 2025-04-01
• First posted: 2024-02-28
• Last updated: 2024-08-02