Detour: a Smartphone Game to Help Youth Quit Smoking
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age16-25
SponsorBehavioural Science Institute
About this trial
The researchers are testing a mobile game (named Detour) to support smoking cessation in adolescents and young adults (16-25 years). The game will be tested in a randomized-controlled trial (RCT) where Detour is tested against a digital self-help brochure ("Jouw eigen plan om te stoppen met roken" \[in English: Your personal plan to quit smoking\]) as the active control group. The researchers will recruit 604 participants (aged 16-25) and randomly assign them to receive the game or brochure intervention. The duration between pre-test and post-test for both groups is 5 weeks during which participants can access (parts of) their respective intervention. All participants quit smoking at the end of week 1 of the intervention period. Data is collected on smoking behaviour, intervention usage, and emotional well-being.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
aged 16 to 25 years
smokes at least weekly
motivated to quit smoking (participants should answer "misschien", "waarschijnlijk" or "heel erg" to the question are you motivated to quit smoking at this specific moment?).
installed Detour application; only applicable for participants assigned to the game intervention group.
Disqualifiers
younger than 16 or older than 25
smoke less than once a week
not motivated to quit smoking are not eligible for this study i.e. participants who answered "helemaal niet"/"not at all") or "onwaarschijnlijk"/"unlikely" to the question are you motivated to quit smoking at this specific moment?).
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Detour
- Self-help brochure
Treatment groups
604 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Behavioural Science Institute
Lead sponsor
Erasmus Medical Center
Collaborator
Stichting Trimbos-Instituut
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov