Testing Familial Self-affirmation for Smoking Cessation

Evidence suggests that affirming the self can help people to make changes in their health behavior. Typically, people affirm a personally-important value, but evidence suggests that affirming the values of family ("familial self-affirmation") might exert stronger effects. The aim of the present study is to examine the effects of familial self-affirmation versus standard self-affirmation versus a control group on smoking cessation.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Smoking Cessation
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Self-affirmation

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 123
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • HC Engineering Company
  • Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • Perfect Match Wedding Service

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Smoker

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non-smoker
• Unable or unwilling to complete questionnaire

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental: Standard self-affirmation; Participants are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention at the end of a questionnaire: The beginning to a sentence appears below. Below it are 4 different ways of completing the sentence. On the lines below, please write out the beginning of the sentence and then complete it with 1 of the 4 options we have given you. If I feel threatened or anxious, then I will…; think about the things I value about myself; remember things that I have succeeded in; think about what I stand for; think about things that are important to me If…___________________________________________________________________	Behavioral: Self-affirmation; Participants are asked to complete a standard questionnaire and on the last page they are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention by copying out a sentence.
Experimental: Experimental: Familial self-affirmation; Participants are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention at the end of a questionnaire: The beginning to a sentence appears below. Below it are 4 different ways of completing the sentence. On the lines below, please write out the beginning of the sentence and then complete it with 1 of the 4 options we have given you. If I feel threatened or anxious, then I will…; think about the things my family and I value about ourselves; remember things that my family and I have succeeded in; think about what my family and I stand for; think about things that are important to my family and me If…__________________________________________________________________	Behavioral: Self-affirmation; Participants are asked to complete a standard questionnaire and on the last page they are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention by copying out a sentence.
No Intervention: Control; Participants are asked to complete a questionnaire.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Smoking cessation	Self-reported quitting	1 month
Quit attempts	Self-reported quit attempts	1 month
Nicotine dependence	Self-reported nicotine dependence	1 month
Craving	Self-reported cravings	1 month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Habit	Self-reported habit	1 month
Self-regulation	Self-reported self-regulation	1 month
Subjective well-being	Self-reported subjective well-being	1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Manchester

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 28, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): March 31, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 22, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 22, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): September 27, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 2, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 1, 2018
• Last Verified: May 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Chun_1

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided
• IPD Plan Description: Anonymised SPSS file

Drug and device information, study documents

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