Mindfulness-based, Mobile Health (mHealth) Smoking Cessation Intervention in Vietnam

Summary

The goals of this a three-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to evaluate the efficacy of mindfulness-based, culturally appropriate, and mobile phone-based smoking cessation intervention among Vietnamese adult male smokers.

The intervention will be delivered via text messages, involving 1,200 adult male smokers, with 400 participants in each of three intervention arms (Cessation Intervention - culturally-adapted smoking cessation messages that incorporate mindfulness; Education Intervention - messages that solely focus on health risks of smoking; Control - basic messages that solely focus on general healthy lifestyle). The investigator will assess cessation rates up to 6-month follow-up, as well as secondary outcomes of knowledge of smoking health risks; stages of change; quit attempts; self-efficacy; cigarettes per day; and nicotine dependence. The investigators hypothesize that participants in the Cessation Intervention group (who will receive culturally-adapted messages) will have higher rates of smoking abstinence, greater knowledge of the health risks of smoking, more transitions from pre-contemplation/contemplation stages to planning/action stages, higher likelihood of making a quit attempt, higher self-efficacy for abstaining from smoking, greater reductions in cigarette consumption, and lower nicotine dependence, compared to participants in the Education Intervention group and Control group.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Mindfulness
• Telemedicine
• Smoking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness-based, smoking cessation focused text messages.

Participants will receive mindfulness-based, smoking cessation focused text messages everyday for 12 weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Educational messages

Text messages focus on the health risks of smoking and secondhand smoking, once everyday for 12 weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Control messages

Text messages focus on the general healthy lifestyle, once everyday for 12 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Georgia State University

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  collaborator NIH

• Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health

  collaborator NIH

• Hanoi University of Public Health

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-08-27

Primary Completion

2024-08-31

Completion

2024-12-31

Countries

• Vietnam

Study Locations