Status:
COMPLETED
Text Messages in Preventing Tobacco Use in Young Adults
Lead Sponsor:
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Conditions:
Healthy Subject
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-25 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This trial studies how well text messages work in preventing tobacco use in young adults. Text messaging may help to teach young adults about the risks of tobacco products.
Detailed Description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To assess baseline knowledge and risk perceptions about the use of conventional and new and emerging tobacco products among a subset of community college students from the two ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age 18-25 (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
- Attend classes at either Houston Community College (HCC) Central Campus or Coleman Campus (Phase 1 and Phase 2), Spring Branch Campus (Phase 2) or the University of Houston (Phase 3)
- Own a smartphone capable of receiving texts from the study's text messaging ) resource (Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3)
- Use phone text-messaging features on a regular basis (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
- Provide cell phone number (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
- Speak and read English (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3)
- Enrolled in a communication program (Phase 1, health communication student review)
- Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale (Phase 3)
Exclusion
- Currently a smoker (Phase 3)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 20 2013
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
January 29 2021
Estimated Enrollment :
781 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03457480
Start Date
September 20 2013
End Date
January 29 2021
Last Update
February 2 2021
Active Locations (1)
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M D Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030