Countering Young Adult Tobacco Marketing in Bars

October 16, 2017 updated by: University of California, San Francisco
The goal of the study is to implement and evaluate interventions to decrease smoking among young adults attending bars and nightclubs. It is believed that the proportion of young adult current smokers during and after the intervention will be significantly less than the proportion of young adult smokers before the intervention in each of the study cities.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

17422

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

    • California
      • San Francisco, California, United States, 94530
        • University of California, San Francisco

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 26 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Participants are healthy volunteers 18-26 years old currently living in San Diego, Portland, Albuquerque, Oklahoma, San Francisco/Bay Area, Nashville, Tucson, or Los Angeles who attend bars or nightclubs
  • Able to read, speak, and understand English
  • NOTE: PARTICIPANTS CAN ONLY TAKE PART IN THE STUDY BY ENCOUNTERING STUDY SURVEY TEAMS OUT AT BARS OR NIGHTCLUBS IN ONE OF THE STUDY CITIES LISTED ABOVE. PARTICIPANTS CANNOT SIGN UP FOR THE STUDY BY CALLING OR EMAILING.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Out of age range (18-26 years old)
  • Not living in San Diego, Portland, Albuquerque, Oklahoma, San Francisco/Bay Area, Nashville, Tucson, Los Angeles or New York City, or currently attending college outside of the target cities.
  • Unable to read, speak, or understand English.
  • Unwillingness or inability to participate or give informed consent.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Anti-smoking social marketing campaign
In prior research, a high risk subpopulation of young adults was identified in San Diego, CA: the "hipster" subculture. We developed a yearlong pilot social branding intervention to decrease smoking among this group, using social events and social leaders to promote a strong nonsmoking lifestyle. The intervention rationale is based on utilizing industry market research tools to define the target audience and directly countering tobacco industry lifestyle marketing strategies. We now propose to extend this intervention to three other cities (tailoring the intervention to a high-risk subpopulation of young adults in each city) and evaluate it in a multicenter quasi-experimental controlled trial.
We will utilize industry market research tools to define the target audience (segment of community with high smoking prevalence and high social influence) and directly counter tobacco industry lifestyle marketing strategies through local promotion of a smokefree brand and branded bar and club events.
No Intervention: Control
Survey research data will be collected in control cities with the same schedule as data collection in the cities where the intervention is taking place.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Self-Reported Tobacco Smoking in past 30 days
Time Frame: Between baseline and follow-up at 1,2, & 3 years post-baseline
The main outcome measure for this analysis will be the proportion of current smoking, defined as self-reported smoking on one or more of the past 30 days.
Between baseline and follow-up at 1,2, & 3 years post-baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Pamela M Ling, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco

Publications and helpful links

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Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

September 1, 2012

Primary Completion (Actual)

July 2, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

July 2, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 12, 2012

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 14, 2012

First Posted (Estimate)

September 17, 2012

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

October 18, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 16, 2017

Last Verified

October 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 1U01CA154240-05 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

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