Feasibility and Acceptability of a Text Messaging Intervention to Increase Smoking Cessation in Vietnam

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Conditions studied: Smoking

In brief

The purpose of this study is to develop and then test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effect of a bidirectional text message smoking cessation intervention among Vietnamese smokers in Hanoi, Vietnam. The specific aim are: 1) To develop a smoking cessation text message library among Vietnamese smokers; 2) To evaluate message preferences, and the feasibility and acceptability of the bidirectional text message smoking cessation intervention; and 3) To assess the preliminary effect of a bidirectional mobile phone text message intervention on biochemically validated smoking abstinence.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03219541

Run by

NYU Langone Health

People needed

190

Starts

2018-02-05

Expected to finish

2019-03-13

Last updated by the study team

2020-04-17

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• smoke ≥10 cigarettes per day
• capability to read and communicate
• plan to quit in the next 30 days
• has a mobile phone
• has experience using mobile phone text messaging during the past 6 months.

You may not qualify if…

• Under smoking cessation treatment or is participating in other tobacco cessation intervention
• pregnant or breastfeeding.

Where it is running

• New York University School of Medicine — New York, New York, United States

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