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A Mobile Text Messaging Intervention for Indoor Tanning Addiction

NCT04055272 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 265

Last updated 2022-08-04

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the effects of messages communicating the risks (i.e., health harms, addictiveness) of indoor tanning delivered via mobile text messaging among young adult women ages 18 to 30 years who meet screening criteria for indoor tanning addiction.

Conditions

  • Indoor Tanning

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mobile text messaging intervention

Participants in the intervention arm will receive text messages to their mobile phones designed to communicate the risks of indoor tanning and motivate cessation. The intervention exposure lasts for 4 weeks with messages sent 2 days each week. It is an interactive intervention that engages participants by asking them to respond to prompts, and sending indoor tanning message content in return on message days.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Georgetown University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Darren Mays, PhD, MPH · Georgetown University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-07
Primary Completion
2022-03-31
Completion
2022-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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