A Brief Intervention Programme on ASP

A Brief Intervention Programme on Alternative Smoking Products

The brief intervention comprises a 4-page worksheet used in the classroom (main intervention) and subsequent weekly e-messages through WhatsApp (booster intervention). The worksheets for both groups will be printed in colour, and mainly contain pictures and simple texts. Students will be asked to provide smartphone numbers of themselves and their parents for receiving the booster interventions. After sending 4-6 e-messages in 4 weeks, students will complete a 1-month follow-up assessment.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Alternative Smoking Products
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Worksheets for ASP; Other: E-messages for ASP; Other: Worksheets for SSB; Other: E-messages for SSB

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 1000
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Tingting Chen, MS; Phone Number: 852 51657486; Email: phttchen@connect.hku.hk

Study Locations

• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • Local primary schools

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: ADULT; OLDER_ADULT; CHILD
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parents and children should understand Chinese.
• Parents' consent to their children's participation.

Exclusion Criteria:

• N/A

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: OTHER
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Alternative smoking products (ASP)	Other: Worksheets for ASP; The ASP intervention will cover the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs and other related information.; Other: E-messages for ASP; In the subsequent month after the main intervention, students in the ASP group will receive 4-6 e-messages on ASPs, after which students will be invited to complete a 1-month follow-up assessment.
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)	Other: Worksheets for SSB; The SSB intervention will cover the general information on SSBs, such as the sugar content of SSBs, nutrition labels and the harms of SSBs.; Other: E-messages for SSB; In the subsequent month after the main intervention, students in the SSB group will receive 4-6 e-messages on SSBs, after which students will be invited to complete a 1-month follow-up assessment.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge on the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs	Students will report their opinions towards 5 statements: Children who use e-cigarettes are more likely to smoke cigarettes in the future;; Hazards of secondhand smoke of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products are slight;; Nicotine content in heated tobacco products is lower than in the cigarettes, which is more difficult to get addicted;; There are a variety of carcinogens in the heated tobacco products;; Tobacco industries do everything they can to get young people to use tobacco products. All the statements have 5 options from definitely no to definitely yes. The options will be recoded into 0-4 or 4-0, as appropriate, with higher scores indicating knowing more about the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs.	Immediately after intervention
Attitudes towards ASPs	Students will report their opinions towards 2 questions: Do you think the usage of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products will harm your health?There will be 11 options from definitely no harm to definitely harm.; Do you accept the primary students use e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products? There will be 11 options from definitely unacceptable to definitely acceptable.	Immediately after intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Intention to use ASPs	If one of your good friends offers you an e-cigarette or heated tobacco product, ask you to have a few puffs, and no one will know about this as no more smoking in the future. Will you use them? There will be 11 options from definitely no to definitely yes.	Immediately after intervention
Knowledge on the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs	Students will report their opinions towards 5 statements: Hazards of e-cigarettes are slight, can only cause minor health problems;; Reliable evidence shows that e-cigarettes can help quit smoking cigarettes;; Heated tobacco products contain tar, can cause a variety of cancers;; Heated tobacco products are harm reduction products, which is less harmful than cigarettes;; Tobacco industries conceal the harms of tobacco products for commercial gain. All the statements have 5 options from definitely no to definitely yes. The options will be recoded into 0-4 or 4-0, as appropriate, with higher scores indicating knowing more about the harms and misleading marketing strategies of ASPs.	1-month follow-up
Attitudes towards ASPs	Students will report their opinions towards 2 questions: Do you think the usage of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products will harm your health?There will be 11 options from definitely no harm to definitely harm.; Do you accept the primary students use e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products? There will be 11 options from definitely unacceptable to definitely acceptable.	1-month follow-up
Intention to use ASPs	If one of your good friends offers you an e-cigarette or heated tobacco product, ask you to have a few puffs, and no one will know about this as no more smoking in the future. Will you use them? There will be 11 options from definitely no to definitely yes.	1-month follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ANTICIPATED): May 18, 2020
• Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED): July 31, 2020
• Study Completion (ANTICIPATED): July 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 6, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 6, 2020
• First Posted (ACTUAL): March 10, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): March 10, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 6, 2020
• Last Verified: March 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: coshdrama2020

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

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