APPSPIRE App in Preventing Students From Smoking

N/ACompletedNCT01967082

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center30 enrolled

Overview

This trial studies how well APPSPIRE, a smartphone app, works in preventing students from smoking. Technology-driven intervention programs, such as the APPSPIRE app, have the potential to increase access to health behavior treatments and therapies, such as tobacco cessation support, and provide effective prevention messaging.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Develop a prototype of the APPSPIRE (phone application \[app\] of a smoking prevention interactive experience). II. At post assessment, students enrolled in the study will qualitatively provide information about the usability and usefulness for the prevention and cessation sites. III. Investigate frequency of use of and exposure to APPSPIRE modules via an objective measure of general use. IV. Investigate how feasible the program will be. V. Obtain a maintained use of APPSPIRE with high completeness and extent of completion. VI. Evaluate change in stage of change from baseline to about 1 and 4-month follow-ups among participants. OUTLINE: Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Cigarette Smoker Current Every Day Smoker Student

Interventions

APPSPIREBEHAVIORAL

Given APPSPIRE app

Focus GroupBEHAVIORAL

Attend focus group

Survey AdministrationOTHER

Complete survey

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 24 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Student at Houston Community College (HCC) * Speak and read English * Own an iPhone * Be enrolled in at least one class at HCC * Provide current contact information * Smoke 1 or more cigarettes a day (cessation group) * Have access to the internet (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups) * Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale Exclusion Criteria: * Does not plan to continue as a student at their campus sometime during the year of the study (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups) * Current tobacco use (prevention/advocacy group)

Locations (2)

Houston Community College

Houston, Texas, United States

M D Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Frequency of APPSPIRE application (app) use

Will be measured in minutes per day and with descriptive statistics. Will measure using mean, median and standard deviation for continuous variables.

Time frame: Up to 4 months

The Feasibility of the tobacco control program.

Feasibly will be measured by multiplying the variable of two concepts: ease of use and ability to fit the program into routine schedules.

Time frame: Up to 4 months

The Completeness with the Percentages of Participants surveyed.

Completeness will be measured as the percentage of participants who continue to use AppSPIRE until the 4 month follow up survey.

Time frame: Up to 4 months

The extent of completion for the modules AppSPIRE.

The extent of completion includes the various modules of AppSPIRE. High extent of completion is obtained if 75% of the participants have completed all modules of AppSPIRE.

Time frame: Up to 4 months

The Stages of the Change Scale

A validated measure, The Stages of Change Scale, will be used to clarify smokers into 3 categories: pre-contemplation, contemplation and preparation.

Time frame: Baseline up to 4 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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