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Pilot Trial of a Game Embedded in a Smartphone App for Smoking Cessation

NCT05227027 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2024-01-03

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Summary

This study evaluates the effects of a video game embedded in a commercially available mobile application (app) for smoking cessation. Smokers are increasingly turning to mobile health apps for assistance with quitting smoking, and there is a critical need for strategies to engage app users to increase retention and efficacy. Video games are designed to increase users' motivation and engagement, which in turn may increase their exposure and adherence to a smoking cessation program. The hypothesis is that the game increases engagement, retention, and smoking abstinence rates compared with a core version of the app without the game. A two-arm individually randomized pilot trial of 500 adult smokers will test this hypothesis, comparing outcomes for participants randomized to receive the core app plus embedded game with participants randomized to receive the core app only. Primary outcomes relate to user engagement with the app. Secondary outcomes relate to user engagement, efficacy (smoking abstinence), and user satisfaction.

Conditions

  • Cigarette Smoking-Related Carcinoma

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Game Module

Receive access to the the game module through the free, 'Smoke Free' smartphone application

BEHAVIORAL

Smoke Free smartphone application

Receive educational intervention through the free 'Smoke Free' smartphone application (core version of the app)

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Justin White, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-09
Primary Completion
2022-05-31
Completion
2022-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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