Electronic Cigarette Use
Conditions
Keywords
social media, young adult, e-cigarette, nicotine vaping
Brief summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effects of social media use on e-cigarette use in young adults who use e-cigarettes. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does reducing social media use change young adults' e-cigarette use? * Does reducing social media use change things such as young adults' mental health and what they see on social media? Participants will complete surveys and submit screenshots showing how much time they spend on social media. Researchers will compare young adults who reduce their social media use to young adults who use social media as usual, to see if their e-cigarette use differs.
Detailed description
The overall goals of this project are to understand how young adults' social media use affects their nicotine vaping and to identify intervention targets that mitigate social media's impact on vaping. Prevalence of vaping and social media use among young adults have increased in tandem. Exposure to vaping-related social media content is common and is associated with vaping. Intense social media use appears to contribute to young adults' increased mental health symptoms, which are linked to tobacco product use. This project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of the causal links between social media use and vaping in young adulthood. Young adults with past-month vaping will report time spent on social media, vaping-related social media content exposure, social comparison on social media, mental health, and vaping behavior. After a 1-month baseline measurement period, they will be randomized to reduce their social media use (incentivized) or use social media as usual for a 3-month experimental period. Longitudinal within- and between-subjects analyses will test relationships between time spent on social media, risk factors for vaping, and vaping behavior. Specific research aims are to: (1) investigate the relationships between a reduction in social media use and: a) vaping content exposure, b) social comparison, and c) mental health, and (2) examine whether reducing social media use reduces past-month vaping days, vaping episodes per vaping day, and puffs per vaping episode.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALSocial Media Use Reduction
Participants will be incentivized to reduce their social media use by a pre-specified percentage from baseline.
Sponsors
Stanford University
University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin, Madison
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
University of Oklahoma
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Participants will be randomized to one of two groups: 1) social media use reduction (intervention), or 2) social media use as usual (control).
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Age 18-25 * Daily social media use * Ownership of a smartphone * Vaping (i.e., use of a nicotine e-cigarette) on 1-19 days of the past 30 days * Residing in the United States
Exclusion criteria
-Lack of capacity to provide informed consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Past-month vaping days | Collected at baseline, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo | Number of days the participant vaped nicotine in the past 30 days |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Episodes per vaping day | Collected at baseline, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo | Average number of times the participant used a nicotine vaping device on each day (of the past 30) they vaped nicotine |
| Puffs per vaping episode | Collected at baseline, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo | Past-month number of puffs per nicotine vaping episode (1-20) |
Countries
United States
Contacts
Primary ContactErin A Vogel, PhD
Outcome results
None listed