Attentional Bias Modification Training for E-cigarette Users

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee50 enrolled

Overview

Aims are to (1) evaluate attentional bias to e-cigarette cues between the intervention and control groups at post-intervention as compared to the pre-intervention; and (2) test the feasibility and efficacy of the intervention at post-intervention. To accomplish these aims, a theory-driven parallel, controlled 2-arm randomized clinical trial will be conducted with young adult e-cigarette users (approximately N = 50). Outcomes are attentional bias to e-cigarette cues and abstinence outcomes including nicotine dependence, and arousal/urges for e-cigarette use.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

E-cigarette Use Tobacco Use Cessation

Interventions

Computerized attentional bias modification trainingBEHAVIORAL

In intervention is designed to train participants to disengage attention from potent e-cigarette cues and is based on the well-established attention retraining paradigm for other psychopathologies.

Placebo attention control trainingBEHAVIORAL

This control training is very similar to the intervention's overall task structure and stimuli. The only difference is that the this control program is designed to exert no systematic manipulation on the attention deployment pattern between the two stimulus categories, thereby yielding no significant impact on the level of attentional bas toward ENDS-related cues

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 29 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * 18 and 29 years * Those who use ENDS exclusively, not combining with other tobacco, for 3 consecutive months * Those who own a smartphone. Exclusion criteria: * Current medication or psychosocial treatment for ENDS dependence * Serious alcohol-use problems (≥ 26 points on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test) * Ophthalmic conditions impeding eye-tracking * Current psychiatric/psychosocial treatment for other mental health disorders in the DSM-5 (e.g., schizophrenia) * Pregnancy.

Locations (1)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Attentional bias to e-cigarette cues measured by cueing task

Attentional bias measured by time in milliseconds between cue and response in cueing task

Time frame: Pre-training

Attentional bias to e-cigarette cues measured by cueing task

Attentional bias measured by time in milliseconds between cue and response in cueing task

Time frame: 1-month follow up

Attentional bias to e-cigarette cues measured by cueing task

Attentional bias measured by time in milliseconds between cue and response in cueing task

Time frame: 2-months follow up

Attentional bias to e-cigarette cues measured by cueing task

Attentional bias measured by time in milliseconds between cue and response in cueing task

Time frame: 4-months follow up

Secondary Outcomes

Subjective urges for e-cigarette use

Subjective urges for ENDS use measured by E-cigarette Use Patterns questionnaire)

Time frame: Pre-training

Nicotine dependence

Nicotine dependence measured by Penn State E-Cigarette Dependence Index

Time frame: Pre-training

Subjective urges for e-cigarette use

Subjective urges for ENDS use measured by E-cigarette Use Patterns questionnaire)

Time frame: 1-momnth follow up

Nicotine dependence

Central Contacts

Seok Hyun Gwon, PhD, RN

CONTACT

414-229-6462 gwon@uwm.edu

Han Joo Lee, PhD

CONTACT

leehj@uwm.edu

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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