A Text Messaging Trial to Test Vaping Health Messages Optimized to Young Adults' Vaping Status

Part of paid clinical trials in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Sponsor
University of Hawaii
Study ID
NCT07038317
Status
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Conditions

  • Message Exposure
  • Vaping Behaviors
  • Young Adults

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - 24 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Intervention — OTHER
    Intervention involves e-cigarette education messages tailored to participants' vaping status that will be sent out in SMS via text messaging three times per week over the course of 6 months.
  • Control — OTHER
    Participants will receive non-tobacco messages (messages about sun safety) three times per week over the course of 6 months.

Study Details

The goal of this study is to examine if e-cigarette education messages delivered using a source and presentation tailored to one's vaping status influences young adults' vaping behaviors. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Does receiving e-cigarette education messages presented using a source (expert or peer) and sidedness (one or two-sided) optimized for the current vaper group influence vaping cessation among young adults who vape daily? 2. Does receiving e-cigarette education messages presented using a source (expert or peer) and sidedness (one or two-sided) optimized for the non-vaper group influence vaping initiation among young adults who are susceptible to vaping? Participants will be randomly assigned to either the treatment (receiving messages tailored to one's vaping status) or the control (receiving non-tobacco messages) condition and receive SMS three times per week over the course of 6 months. They will complete self-report assessment and show salivary cotinine results for nicotine testing at 4 timepoints.

Key Dates

Start date
Apr 30, 2026
Status verified
Mar 2026
Primary completion
Dec 30, 2027
Completion
Jan 31, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment
120 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION

Arms

  • Experimental: Treatment
    Participants in the treatment arm will receive e-cigarette education messages with source and sidedness optimized to one's vaping status.
  • Placebo Comparator: Control
    Participants in the control arm will receive messages about sun safety.

Primary Outcome Measure

Self-reported vaping [ Time Frame: Baseline, six-month ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
University of Hawaii Cancer CenterHonoluluHawaii96822-

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