APPSPIRE App in Preventing Students From Smoking

APPSPIRE: Expanding the Reach of an Innovative Tobacco Control Program for Youth

This trial studies how well APPSPIRE, a smartphone app, works in preventing students from smoking. Technology-driven intervention programs, such as the APPSPIRE app, have the potential to increase access to health behavior treatments and therapies, such as tobacco cessation support, and provide effective prevention messaging.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Current Every Day Smoker; Cigarette Smoker; Student
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Survey Administration; Behavioral: APPSPIRE; Behavioral: Focus Group

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Develop a prototype of the APPSPIRE (phone application [app] of a smoking prevention interactive experience).

II. At post assessment, students enrolled in the study will qualitatively provide information about the usability and usefulness for the prevention and cessation sites.

III. Investigate frequency of use of and exposure to APPSPIRE modules via an objective measure of general use.

IV. Investigate how feasible the program will be. V. Obtain a maintained use of APPSPIRE with high completeness and extent of completion.

VI. Evaluate change in stage of change from baseline to about 1 and 4-month follow-ups among participants.

OUTLINE:

Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 30
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Texas
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
      • M D Anderson Cancer Center
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77002
      • Houston Community College

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 24 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Student at Houston Community College (HCC)
• Speak and read English
• Own an iPhone
• Be enrolled in at least one class at HCC
• Provide current contact information
• Smoke 1 or more cigarettes a day (cessation group)
• Have access to the internet (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
• Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale

Exclusion Criteria:

• Does not plan to continue as a student at their campus sometime during the year of the study (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
• Current tobacco use (prevention/advocacy group)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Prevention (focus group, APPSPIRE app, survey); Participants attend an audio-taped focus group over 1 hour and are given the APPSPIRE app. After 1 and 4 months of using the app, participants complete a telephone survey over 1 hour to discuss how they liked the app and its usefulness.	Other: Survey Administration; Complete survey; Behavioral: APPSPIRE; Given APPSPIRE app; Other Names: APPSPIRE Smartphone Application; APPSPIRE Smartphone App; APPSPIRE App; APPSPIRE Application; Behavioral: Focus Group; Attend focus group

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Frequency of APPSPIRE application (app) use	Will be measured in minutes per day and with descriptive statistics. Will measure using mean, median and standard deviation for continuous variables.	Up to 4 months
The Feasibility of the tobacco control program.	Feasibly will be measured by multiplying the variable of two concepts: ease of use and ability to fit the program into routine schedules.	Up to 4 months
The Completeness with the Percentages of Participants surveyed.	Completeness will be measured as the percentage of participants who continue to use AppSPIRE until the 4 month follow up survey.	Up to 4 months
The extent of completion for the modules AppSPIRE.	The extent of completion includes the various modules of AppSPIRE. High extent of completion is obtained if 75% of the participants have completed all modules of AppSPIRE.	Up to 4 months
The Stages of the Change Scale	A validated measure, The Stages of Change Scale, will be used to clarify smokers into 3 categories: pre-contemplation, contemplation and preparation.	Baseline up to 4 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Collaborators: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Alexander V Prokhorov, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• MD Anderson Cancer Center Website

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 16, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 8, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): January 8, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 16, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 17, 2013
• First Posted (Estimate): October 22, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): January 14, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 13, 2020
• Last Verified: January 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2013-0369 (Other Identifier: M D Anderson Cancer Center); P30CA016672 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); NCI-2018-03054 (Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program)); R41DA035012 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No