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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Smoking Interventions in Women
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating AprilAge- facial morphing appearance based intervention for smoking for Smoking Cessation. Completed, enrolled 70 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The study is a randomised controlled trial (RCT) designed to test two tailored conditions of an appearance-based intervention for smoking in female smokers, compared to a control group administered a general stop smoking intervention. The intervention delivery is being tested to assess whether the level of physiological arousal evoked by the intervention and the instruction type has an influence on the outcome measures. To do this one condition will receive the intervention with a neutral instruction and the other the intervention with additional instructions, measures of physiological stress reactivity will be used to measure level of stress evoked by the intervention and delivery.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Appearance-based intervention: The intervention is a software that ages an individual's face with and without the effects of smoking. Participants have their photo taken on a laptop webcam, they are then asked to report their age and ethnicity in order to calibrate the software, the participants picture is then matched to a stock image. The participants will see two images on the screen, on the left is there face aged without the effects of smoking and one the right aged with the effects of smoking. Participants will be led through a series of morphing sequences (1-5). In-between each of the morphing sequences (Morph1 to Morph5) the participant will be asked to comment on the differences they can see between the two images. General stop smoking intervention: The General stop smoking intervention comes in the form of a NHS stop smoking information leaflet. The participants will be given the leaflet on a laptop screen and asked to read through the whole document.