E-cigarette Use
Conditions
Brief summary
The goal of this intervention development and pilot clinical trial is to determine whether receiving the brief online intervention results in greater reductions in past 7-day e-cigarette use frequency and smoking susceptibility over an 8-week period compared to receiving the control condition in young adults who currently use e-cigarettes. Participants in the experimental condition will be asked to complete the 30-minute mobile-based program. Participants in the assessment-only control will be given the option to access the intervention after they complete their final survey at 8 weeks. All participants will complete our online surveys at baseline as well as 2-weeks, 4-weeks, and 8-weeks post-randomization. Researchers will compare outcomes among the intervention and control groups to determine the efficacy of the intervention.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALLive Free From E-cigarettes
This is a 30-minute online educational program that focuses on providing information about e-cigarette and smoking social norms, harms of e-cigarettes and cigarettes, and ways to quit or reduce using e-cigarettes.
Sponsors
University of Southern California
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 24 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* be between the ages of 18 to 24 * be able to read English * report vaping at least one day per week in the past month * report no history of cigarette use at screening and baseline.
Exclusion criteria
* reporting severe mental health, illicit drug use, or alcohol use disorder * currently receiving nicotine cessation services
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| E-cigarette Use | 8 weeks | Participants will report the number of (1) days they vaped, (2) times they picked up their device to vape per day, and (3) puffs they took before putting their vaping device away per day in the past 7 days and 30 days |
| Smoking Susceptibility | 8 weeks | 4-item Expanded Susceptibility to Smoking Index (ESSI) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Perceived harms and benefits of vaping | 8 weeks | Using the 21-item Short Form Vaping Consequences Questionnaire (S-VSQ), participants will rate the likelihood that each consequence will occur when they vape. |
| Perceived harms and benefits of smoking | 8 weeks | Using the 21-item Short Form Smoking Consequences Questionnaire (S-SCQ), participants will rate the likelihood that each consequence will occur when they smoke. |
| Motivation to vape | 8 weeks | Participants will select which option best describes their interest in e-cigarette use: plan to stop (coded as 1), decrease (2), continue (3) or increase (4) vaping. |
| Motivation to smoke | 8 weeks | Participants will report if they plan to start smoking (yes/no). |
| Quitting vaping self-efficacy | 8 weeks | Participants rate their confidence about quitting vaping "someday" and "in the next 6 months" on a 5-point scale. |
| Vaping quit attempts | 8 weeks | During follow-up assessments, participants will report on the number of times they have stopped vaping for one day or longer because they were trying to quit vaping. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORDenise D Tran, PhD
University of Southern California
Outcome results
None listed