Web Assisted Tobacco Intervention With Community Colleges

Summary

This trial will test the effectiveness of an enhanced web-based smoking cessation intervention for student smokers at 2-year Community Colleges. Young adults continue to be understudied, so more studies of cessation interventions are needed to generate an acceptable level of strength of evidence regarding quit rates, particularly so for Community College students for whom little data on cessation are available. Students (research subjects) will be directed to one of two intervention websites with various levels of novel interactive and social network features, including a variety of better-practice features recommended by recent literature, and technologically advanced proactive features (e-mails, SMS texting, and social networking).

Our study hypothesizes that students with access to an enhanced website will have higher rates of self-reported intention to quit, a higher number of quit attempts at 6-months compared to those in in a non-enhanced website. Overall, this study will evaluate evidence for a novel enhanced cessation intervention model and will add to our understanding of successful intervention with an understudied population of primarily young adult Community College smokers. The intervention components will be replicable and, if effective, the methodology is applicable across populations, and has the potential for broad public health impact through improved delivery of effective stop smoking interventions via the internet.

Conditions

• Tobacco Dependence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced Web Assisted Tobacco Intervention

Subjects at community college campuses will be directed to a cessation website with current Public Health Service Guideline information and effective smoking cessation strategies, and some combination of novel interactive and social network features, including a variety of better-practice features recommended recent literature, and technologically advanced proactive features (e-mails, SMS texting, and social networking).

BEHAVIORAL

Basic Web Assisted Tobacco Intervention

Subjects at community college campuses will be directed to a cessation website with current Public Health Service Guideline information and effective smoking cessation strategies, and with minimal interactive web-based features.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)

  collaborator NIH

• National Library of Medicine (NLM)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Rochester

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Scott McIntosh, PhD · University of Rochester

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-10-31

Primary Completion

2016-08-31

Completion

2016-08-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations