NCT03048786

Mobile-based Peer Mentoring for Smoking Cessation

Completed NA Last updated 1 September 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Control in Smoking Cessation in 200 participants. Completed in 14 August 2017.

Timeline

6 February 2017

Primary endpoint
14 August 2017

14 August 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of California, San Francisco
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	200
Start date	6 February 2017
Primary completion	14 August 2017
Estimated completion	14 August 2017
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Control
• Peer Mentoring

Conditions studied

• Smoking Cessation — all drugs for Smoking Cessation →
• Tobacco Use — all drugs for Tobacco Use →

Sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Smoking Cessation or Tobacco Use. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Despite the availability of a variety of effective treatments for smoking cessation, uptake of treatments is low. The increasing use of smartphone technology presents an exceptional opportunity to expand access to low-cost smoking cessation services. In this pilot study, the investigators will use a text-messaging platform to test peer mentoring for smoking cessation, delivered by former smokers. While peer mentoring is a common approach to health behavior change, it has rarely been used to maximum effect by smoking cessation programs. The text-messaging platform serves as the basis for a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of peer mentoring for smoking cessation.

This pilot will include approximately 200 U.S. adult smokers who will be randomly assigned to a peer mentor or not. Participants in the control group will receive automated text messages used in SmokefreeTXT, a nationwide text-messaging service sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in which users receive one to five automated messages per day for up to eight weeks. Smokers in the intervention group will receive a modified version of the same automated messages from SmokefreeTXT, but with additional personalized messages from an assigned peer mentor. Mentors will provide responses to specific questions or comments a smoker may have after receiving the automated messages.

The intervention will last 8 weeks. The study includes primary outcomes to measure the acceptability, engagement, user experience, and early efficacy of the intervention.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.