Feasibility Trial of a Tailored Smoking Cessation App for People With Serious Mental Illness

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-01-17
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Quitting smoking has important health benefits for people with serious mental illness, more than half of whom are smokers. Smoking reductions in this population, in turn, could contribute to saving billions of dollars in healthcare expenditures.

Finding ways to deliver more effective and wider reaching smoking cessation interventions to individuals with serious mental illness is a pressing priority. Smartphone apps are a wide reaching technology that could provide a viable platform to deliver smoking cessation interventions for individuals with serious mental illness.

However, do smoking cessation apps need to be tailored for people with serious mental illness to ensure their success? Or can providers simply use standard and freely available smoking cessation mobile health treatments designed for the general population? Furthermore, is it feasible to conduct mHealth trials in this population?

Therefore, this trial will test whether (1) a tailored smoking cessation app for people with serious mental illness results in higher levels of engagement with smoking cessation content as compared to an app designed for the general population and (2) smoking cessation mHealth trials can be feasibly conducted in this population.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Duke University
• Collaborator: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ICD-10 diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bipolar or recurring depressive disorder

• Smoking ≥ 5 cigarettes per day over the past 30 days

• Desire to quit smoking in the next 30 days

• Willing and medically eligible to use Nicotine Replacement Therapy

• Fluent in spoken and written English

• Working email, mailing address, or alternative contact person

• Taking psychiatric medications as prescribed by their provider

• Stable housing

Exclusion Criteria:

• Problematic alcohol or illicit drug use in the last 30 days

• Acute psychotic episode, unsafe to participate in the study, or psychiatrically unstable

• Pregnant, breastfeeding, or having the intention to become pregnant in the next 4 months

• Hearing, comprehension, or visual limitations that preclude study participation

• Currently receiving any pharmacological and/or behavioral intervention or counseling for smoking cessation

• Using non-cigarette forms of tobacco as the primary source of nicotine (e.g. e-cigarettes, chew)