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Vaping Prevention and Vaping in Youth (Vapechat)

NCT06003439 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 119

Last updated 2024-06-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Many youth are addicted to nicotine due to increased nicotine vaping (e.g., e-cigarettes). Unfortunately, there are no effective interventions to help teens quit vaping. In addition, existing vaping prevention programs have limited effectiveness because teens have reported that existing available interventions are out of touch with teen's culture and are not appealing to the intended audience. Therefore, to be effective, a vaping intervention must be acceptable, appealing, and engaging to teens, and most importantly, it should be designed to be channeled into an existing infrastructure such as the school setting.

The investigators' research group has designed a vaping prevention and cessation intervention that is implemented as a VR game for high school teens. The overall objective of this research is to assess the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy of the VR experience among high school students in two high schools in Boston.

Conditions

  • Vaping
  • Smoking Cessation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual Reality Program

Behavioral: Virtual Reality Program The VR Program will be pre-installed on Meta Quest 2 headsets, which will be donned by students as a class to experience the intervention for approximately the length of one school class period (approximately 30-40 minutes). Each participant will experience the program once a week for 3 weeks. Participants who missed a week will complete the program by the 4th or 5th week.

BEHAVIORAL

VR Program

VR program participants will be able to download a mobile app that complements and reinforces the school-based VR session.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Belinda Borrelli, PhD · Boston University, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Center for Behavioral Science Research

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-04-04
Primary Completion
2024-06-07
Completion
2024-06-07

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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