This project will develop and refine a computer-delivered integrated Personalized Feedback Intervention (PFI) that directly addresses smoking and anxiety sensitivity (AS). The PFI will focus on feedback about smoking behavior, AS, and adaptive coping strategies.
The primary goal of the research study is to investigate the efficacy of a brief, personalized computer-delivered transdiagnostic intervention (PFI) that addresses smoking and anxiety sensitivity (AS) to reduce smoking, increase quit attempts, reduce perceived barriers to cessation, reduce AS and negative affective symptoms, and increase adaptive coping skills compared to a smoking information only control. To address this aim, we will implement a randomized controlled trial that will employ a longitudinal experimental design and involve three stages: (a) phone-screener (pre-screener); (b) baseline appointment consisting of a pre-intervention assessment (eligibility), random assignment to a one-session computer-delivered intervention (PFI versus smoking information control with no personalized feedback), and a post-intervention assessment; (c) 1-month follow-up. Assessments will include a multi-method approach, including biological, behavioral, and self-report methods.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
95
Personalized Feedback Intervention for smoking and anxiety.
Smoking Information with no personalized feedback.
Anxiety and Health Research Laboratory and Substance Use Treatment Clinic, University of Houston
Houston, Texas, United States
Evaluate PFI
Evaluate the protocol for a brief personalized, computer-delivered intervention. Assessed by program evaluation survey.
Time frame: Assessed at 1-month follow-up after the one-session intervention
Smoking Motivational Processes
Smokers in intervention, relative to a smoking information control, will report increased motivation and confidence for quitting smoking. Assessed using Smoking Rulers for Change measure.
Time frame: Assessed at 1-month follow-up after the one-session intervention
Smoking Behavior
Smokers in intervention, relative to a smoking information control, will report reduced smoking rates. Assessed using Carbon Monoxide \[CO\] analysis.
Time frame: Assessed at 1-month follow-up after the one-session intervention
Affective Processes
Smokers in intervention, relative to a smoking information control, will report greater reductions in anxiety sensitivity. Assessed using Anxiety Sensitivity Index measure.
Time frame: Assessed at 1-month follow-up after the one-session intervention
Mechanisms
Smokers in the intervention, relative to the smoking information control, will report decreased positive consequences for continued smoking. Assessed using Smoking Consequence Questionnaire.
Time frame: Assessed at 1-month follow-up after the one-session intervention
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