Trial reportBMJ open2016
Photoaging smartphone app promoting poster campaign to reduce smoking prevalence in secondary schools: the Smokerface Randomized Trial: design and baseline characteristics.
Trial report in BMJ open, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02544360 (Smokerface), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Smokerface: A Photoaging Mobile App Promoting Poster Campaign for Preventing Smoking in Secondary Schools: Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to prevent or cease electronic cigarette use in children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Tobacco cessation interventions for young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- A Smoking Prevention Program Delivered by Medical Students to Secondary Schools in Brazil Called "Education Against Tobacco": Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Trial
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- A Medical Student-Delivered Smoking Prevention Program, Education Against Tobacco, for Secondary Schools in Germany: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Trial
- Mobile Health Interventions for Adolescent Smoking Prevention: A Scoping Review.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2026Article
- Smartphone Apps for Smoking Cessation: Systematic Framework for App Review and Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Review
- UK women smokers' experiences of an age-progression smoking cessation intervention: Thematic analysis of accounts.PEC innovation · 2022Article
- Smoking prevention intervention with school classes in university hospital by thoracic surgeon und pulmonologist. The Zurich prevention project.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of a tailored web app on sun protection intentions and its implications for skin cancer prevention: A randomized controlled trial.PLOS digital health · 2022Article
- A Systematic Review of the Scope of Study of mHealth Interventions for Wellness and Related Challenges in Pediatric and Young Adult Populations.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2022Review
- Mobile phone text messaging and app-based interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Review
- Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Treatment: an Update on Evidence-Based Strategies.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
- Mobile Applications for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence.Current addiction reports · 2019Article
- Process Evaluation of a Medical Student-Delivered Smoking Prevention Program for Secondary Schools: Protocol for the Education Against Tobacco Cluster Randomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2019Article
- Educating school students and gauging their perception about the harmful effects of smoking using a "Facial-Ageing App (mobile application):" An experience from Malaysia.Journal of education and health promotion · 2019Article
- A Face-Aging App for Smoking Cessation in a Waiting Room Setting: Pilot Study in an HIV Outpatient Clinic.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Article
- A Face-Aging Smoking Prevention/Cessation Intervention for Nursery School Students in Germany: An Appearance-Focused Interventional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Facial-Aging Mobile Apps for Smoking Prevention in Secondary Schools in Brazil: Appearance-Focused Interventional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2018Article
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28 authors.
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Abstract
introductionSmoking is the largest cause of preventable death globally. Most smokers smoke their first cigarette in early adolescence. We took advantage of the widespread availability of mobile phones and adolescents' interest in appearance to develop a free photoaging app which is promoted via a poster campaign in secondary schools. This study aims to evaluate its effectiveness regarding smoking prevalence and students' attitudes towards smoking. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A randomised controlled trial is conducted with 9851 students of both genders with an average age of 12 years in grades 6 and 7 of 126 secondary schools in Germany. At present, cigarette smoking prevalence in our sample is 4.7%, with 4.6% of the students currently using e-cigarettes (1.6% use both). The prospective experimental study design includes measurements at baseline and at 6, 12 and 24 months postintervention via a questionnaire plus a random cotinine saliva sample at 24 months postintervention. The study groups consist of randomised schools receiving the Smokerface poster campaign and control schools with comparable baseline data (no intervention). The primary end point is the difference of change in smoking prevalence in the intervention group versus the difference in the control group at 24 months follow-up. Longitudinal changes in smoking-related attitudes, the number of new smokers and quitters and the change in the number of never-smokers will be compared between the two groups as secondary outcomes. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethical approval was obtained from the ethics committee of the University of Gießen and the ministries of cultural affairs, both in Germany. Results will be disseminated at conferences, in peer-reviewed journals, on our websites and throughout the multinational Education Against Tobacco network. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT02544360, Pre-results.
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