PMID- 32945261 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201020 IS - 1929-0748 (Print) IS - 1929-0748 (Electronic) IS - 1929-0748 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 9 DP - 2020 Sep 18 TI - A Mobile Social Network-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Chinese Male Smokers: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. PG - e18071 LID - 10.2196/18071 [doi] LID - e18071 AB - BACKGROUND: Approximately 2 million Chinese people die annually from tobacco-related diseases, mostly men; yet, fewer than 8% of Chinese smokers ever receive any smoking cessation advice or support. A social network-based gamified smoking cessation intervention (SCAMPI: Smoking Cessation App for Chinese Male: Pilot Intervention) is designed to help Chinese male smokers to quit smoking. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to present the protocol of a study examining the preliminary effectiveness of SCAMPI by comparing the prolonged abstinence rate of a group of users with a comparator group during a 6-week follow-up period. METHODS: A two-arm pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess the preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of the SCAMPI program as a smoking cessation intervention. After initial web-based screening, the first 80 eligible individuals who had gone through the required registration process were registered as participants of the trial. Participants were randomly allocated to the intervention group (n=40) and the control group (n=40). Participants in the intervention group used the full version of the SCAMPI program, which is a Chinese smoking cessation program developed based on the Behavior Change Wheel framework and relevant smoking cessation and design guidelines with involvement of target users. The program delivers a range of smoking cessation approaches, including helping users to make quitting plans, calculator to record quitting benefits, calendar to record progress, gamification to facilitate quitting, providing information about smoking harms, motivational messages to help users overcome urges, providing standardized tests to users for assessing their levels of nicotine dependence and lung health, and providing a platform to encourage social support between users. Participants in the control group used the restricted version of the SCAMPI program (placebo app). RESULTS: Recruitment for this project commenced in January 2019 and proceeded until March 2019. Follow-up data collection was commenced and completed by June 2019. The primary outcome measure of the study was the 30-day bio-verified smoking abstinence at the 6-week follow-up (self-reported data verified by the Nicotine Cotinine Saliva Test). The secondary outcome measures of the study included participants' cigarette consumption reduction (compared baseline daily cigarette consumption with end-of-trial daily cigarette consumption), participants' 7-day smoking abstinence at 4-week and 6-week follow-up (self-reported), participants' 30-day smoking abstinence at 6-week follow-up (self-reported data only), and participants' acceptability and satisfaction levels of using the SCAMPI program (measured by the Mobile App Rating Scale questionnaire). CONCLUSIONS: If the SCAMPI program is shown to be preliminary effective, the study will be rolled out to be a future trial with a larger sample size and longer follow-up (6 months) to identify if it is an effective social network-based tool to support Chinese male smokers to quit smoking. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12618001089224; https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=375381. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): RR1-10.2196/18071. CI - (c)Jinsong Chen, Elsie Ho, Yannan Jiang, Robyn Whittaker, Tingzhong Yang, Christopher Bullen. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (http://www.researchprotocols.org), 18.09.2020. FAU - Chen, Jinsong AU - Chen J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1833-7133 AD - The National Institute for Health Innovation, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. FAU - Ho, Elsie AU - Ho E AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7866-032X AD - School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. FAU - Jiang, Yannan AU - Jiang Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7663-9164 AD - The National Institute for Health Innovation, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. FAU - Whittaker, Robyn AU - Whittaker R AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0901-9149 AD - The National Institute for Health Innovation, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. FAU - Yang, Tingzhong AU - Yang T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8234-0938 AD - Centre for Tobacco Control Research, School of Medicine, The Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. FAU - Bullen, Christopher AU - Bullen C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6807-2930 AD - The National Institute for Health Innovation, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200918 PL - Canada TA - JMIR Res Protoc JT - JMIR research protocols JID - 101599504 PMC - PMC7532454 OTO - NOTNLM OT - mHealth OT - mobile phone OT - public health OT - smoking cessation COIS- Conflicts of Interest: None declared. EDAT- 2020/09/19 06:00 MHDA- 2020/09/19 06:01 PMCR- 2020/09/18 CRDT- 2020/09/18 08:43 PHST- 2020/02/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/06/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/05/29 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/09/18 08:43 [entrez] PHST- 2020/09/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/09/19 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2020/09/18 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - v9i9e18071 [pii] AID - 10.2196/18071 [doi] PST - epublish SO - JMIR Res Protoc. 2020 Sep 18;9(9):e18071. doi: 10.2196/18071.