Identifying and Addressing the Effects of Social Media Use on Young Adults' E-Cigarette Use: A Solutions-Oriented Approach
University of Oklahoma
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effects of social media use on e-cigarette use in young adults who use e-cigarettes. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does reducing social media use change young adults' e-cigarette use? * Does reducing social media use change things such as young adults' mental health and what they see on social media? Participants will complete surveys and submit screenshots showing how much time they spend on social media. Researchers will compare young adults who reduce their social media use to young adults who use social media as usual, to see if their e-cigarette use differs.
Description
The overall goals of this project are to understand how young adults' social media use affects their nicotine vaping and to identify intervention targets that mitigate social media's impact on vaping. Prevalence of vaping and social media use among young adults have increased in tandem. Exposure to vaping-related social media content is common and is associated with vaping. Intense social media use appears to contribute to young adults' increased mental health symptoms, which are linked to tobacco product use. This project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of the causal links betw…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–25 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18-25 * Daily social media use * Ownership of a smartphone * Vaping (i.e., use of a nicotine e-cigarette) on 1-19 days of the past 30 days * Residing in the United States Exclusion Criteria: -Lack of capacity to provide informed consent
Interventions
- BehavioralSocial Media Use Reduction
Participants will be incentivized to reduce their social media use by a pre-specified percentage from baseline.
Location
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences CenterOklahoma City, Oklahoma