Recruiting

Cigarillo Education

Sponsor:

Drexel University

Code:

NCT06863168

Conditions

Cigarillo Smoking

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 30

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Cigarillo Health Harm and Nicotine Addiction Messaging

Cigarillo Health Harm and Nicotine Addiction Messaging Contextualized to Outcome Expectancies

Study Details

Brief summary:

This is a 3-arm randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of cigarillo public education messages among Black young adults who are at-risk for established cigarillo smoking. The primary outcomes are cigarillo harm perceptions, outcome expectancies, and use intentions at 3-month follow-up. Exploratory outcomes are use behaviors (cigarillo smoking initiation and use behaviors) measured at 3-month follow-up. These outcomes will also be measured at 1-month follow-up time point.

Conditions

Cigarillo Smoking

Study ID

NCT06863168

Start date

Apr 17, 2025

Status verified date

Jun, 2025

Completion date

Aug 31, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Nov 30, 2025

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 30

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Be between 18 to 30 years of age;
  • Self-identify as non-Hispanic Black or African American ethnicity and race, respectively;
  • Must be able to communicate, read, and write in the English language;
  • Have never used cigarillos fairly regularly based on a valid measure but are deemed susceptible to cigarillo smoking based on a valid 4-item susceptibility measure; OR currently smokes cigarillos some days but not every day (i.e., experimentation)
  • And must have no history of fairly regular use of any other tobacco products (i.e., little cigars, large cigars, cigarettes, hookah tobacco, electronic vaping products, smokeless tobacco, and heated tobacco products)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Persons who are younger than 18 years of age or older than 30 years of age.
  • Persons who do not self-identify as a non-Hispanic Black/African American person.
  • Persons who are not deemed susceptible based on a valid susceptibility measure (i.e., not susceptible to cigarillo smoking)
  • Persons who have fairly regular use of any tobacco product (i.e., persons with a former or current established pattern of any tobacco use including cigarillos, little cigars, large cigars, cigarettes, hookah tobacco, electronic vaping products, smokeless tobacco, and heated tobacco products)
  • Persons who are unable to read, write, and communicate in English language. The informed consent and other materials, including surveys, are only available in the English language for this study. Additionally, trained staff members that will communicate and interact with participants for this study can only speak in English.

Study Design

Enrollment

360 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: Non-Tobacco Messages

Participants in the control arm will receive messages about food safety. Four of the 16 total messages will be emailed with a survey link on four days each week for four weeks.

experimental: Cigarillo Harm Messaging

Participants in the harm messaging arm will receive messages about the 1) long-term health risks, 2) short-term health risks, 3) social health risks, and 4) nicotine addiction of cigarillo smoking. Four of the 16 total messages will be emailed with a survey link on four days each week for four weeks. Each week's 4 messages will be randomized and include one message from the four harm themes.

experimental: Cigarillo Harm Messages Contextualized to Outcome Expectancies

Participants in the harm messaging contextualized to outcome expectancies arm will receive messages about the health harm and nicotine addiction risks of cigarillo smoking contextualized to one of the following themes: 1) smoking sensory experience, 2) anticipated pleasure, relaxation, and satisfaction from smoking, 3) social persona/admiration related to smoking, and 4) that smoking does not align with personal values and authenticity. Four of the 16 total messages will be emailed with a survey link on four days each week for four weeks. Each week's 4 messages will be randomized and include one message from the four harm themes.

Interventions

Cigarillo Health Harm and Nicotine Addiction Messaging

Participants in the harm messaging arm will receive messages about the 1) long-term health risks, 2) short-term health risks, 3) social health risks, and 4) nicotine addiction of cigarillo smoking.

Cigarillo Health Harm and Nicotine Addiction Messaging Contextualized to Outcome Expectancies

Participants in the harm messaging contextualized to outcome expectancies arm will receive messages about the health harm and nicotine addiction risks of cigarillo smoking (i.e., 1) long-term health risks, 2) short-term health risks, 3) social health risks, and 4) nicotine addiction of cigarillo smoking) contextualized to one of the following themes: 1) smoking sensory experience, 2) anticipated pleasure, relaxation, and satisfaction from smoking, 3) social persona/admiration related to smoking, and 4) that smoking does not align with personal values and authenticity.

Primary outcome measure

  • Cigarillo harm perceptions [ Time Frame: 1-month; 3-month ]
  • Cigarillo outcome expectancies [ Time Frame: 1-month; 3-month ]
  • Cigarillo use intentions [ Time Frame: 1-month; 3-month ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Lilianna Phan, PhD, MPH, MS

267-359-6069lp954@drexel.edu

Locations

Drexel University

Recruiting

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104

Contacts

267-359-6069

More Information

Sponsor

Drexel University

Last update posted

Jul 2, 2025

Last verified

Jun, 2025

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-08. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Drexel University on 2025-07-02.