Clinical trials: Social Media
Eating Disorders
Leveraging Social Media to Identify and Connect Teens With Eating Disorders to a Mobile Guided Self-Help Mobile Intervention
Clinical or subclinical eating disorders (EDs) impact 10% of individuals in their lifetime and are marked by significant functional impairment, early mortality, chronicity, and emotional distress.
- Trial name
- NCT04636840
- Testing
- Space From Body and Eating Concerns- Teen
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 161 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
HIV Prevention, HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis
Social Media as a Risk Tool for HIV Prevention Needs
The impact of effective HIV prevention tools is limited because many people do not know that they are at risk for HIV acquisition, despite the availability of various risk assessment scores and criteria.
- Trial name
- SMaaRT (NCT06566417)
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Alcohol Drinking, Alcohol Abuse
A Gamified, Social Media Inspired Personalized Normative Feedback Alcohol Intervention for Sexual Minority Women
Sexual minority women in the United States are more likely to drink alcohol, engage in heavy drinking, and experience alcohol-related problems than are heterosexual women.
- Conditions
- Alcohol Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol; Harmful Use
- Trial name
- NCT03884478
- Testing
- Personalized Normative Feedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Loyola Marymount University
Cannabis Use
Social Media Intervention for Cannabis Use in Emerging Adults
The purpose of the study is to develop and test social media interventions to help young people increase well-being and reduce risky behaviors.
- Trial name
- NCT04187989
- Testing
- Social Media Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 149 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Pediatric Obesity
Quincy Family, Youth & Technology For Lifestyle Change (FYT-4-LIFE) Study
To date, approaches that show the most promise for preventing and/or reversing the course of childhood obesity involve the delivery of intensive lifestyle interventions within a family-based context, emphasizing the necessity of…
- Trial name
- QFYT (NCT02324361)
- Testing
- Physical Activity, Evidence-based information on healthy family routines
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Tobacco Use, Tobacco Smoking
Connecting Alaska Native People to Quit Smoking
The prevalence of smoking among US adults is highest among American Indians and Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons; however, there are a lack of tobacco cessation interventions developed specific to this disparity group.
- Conditions
- Tobacco Use, Tobacco Smoking, Tobacco Use Cessation, Smoking Cessation
- Trial name
- CAN Quit (NCT03645941)
- Testing
- Facebook Group
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 61 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease
Twitter and Diabetes
Twitter use is surprisingly well represented across broad demographic population segments and health-related messages. The promise of using Twitter is that its use is growing rapidly, it allows the investigators to view…
- Trial name
- NCT02806700
- Testing
- Twitter Diabetes Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 628 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Risk Reduction
Social Media And Risk-reduction Training for Infant Care Practices (SMART)
The goal of this proposal is to address serious and ongoing challenges related to adherence to public health recommendations known to reduce the risk of SIDS.
- Trial name
- SMART (NCT01713868)
- Testing
- Safe Sleep Nursery Education, Breastfeeding Nursery Education, Breastfeeding Mobile Health Messaging
- Volunteers
- 1,600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Virginia
Vaccine, Human Papilloma Virus
HPV Message Testing and Social Media Campaign
This project involves a social media campaign to increase parent's knowledge and acceptance of the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine.
- Trial name
- NCT03747302
- Testing
- Social Media Message about HPV and HPV vaccine, Social media message about risk of electronic cigarettes.
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,043 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Vaccination Refusal, COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Messaging for Vaccination
This study will distribute videos of health professionals encouraging Covid-19 vaccination to a large sample of Facebook users, and will test the most effective ways to maximize diffusion of this vaccine-related content to…
- Trial name
- NCT05182554
- Testing
- Doctor Videos, Sharing Videos, Sharing Videos (Influencers)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adolescent Mothers, Infant Obesity
Tools For Teen Moms: Reducing Infant Obesity Risk
The purpose of this social media group randomized trial (GRT) is to test the feasibility of our Baby Dayr for Teen Moms intervention to increase maternal responsiveness to infant cues and implement healthy feeding practices…
- Trial name
- TFTM (NCT02244424)
- Testing
- Tools for Teen Moms
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 164 people
- Sponsor
- Michigan State University
Underage Drinking
Parental Research on Interventions for Social Media
The prevalence of underage alcohol use continues to be a public health concern. Numerous studies have reported associations between teen drinking tendencies and parental attitudes and beliefs, parental awareness of teen drinking…
- Trial name
- PRISM (NCT04333966)
- Testing
- Interactive Social Networking Site Parent Based Intervention, Active Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 202 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Texas Health Science Center
Type 2 Diabetes
Social Media-Delivered Patient Education in Enhancing Type 2 Diabetics Self-Management and Attitudes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The current study was to develop a software "Line@" based health education program, providing video-based health information and communication between diabetes patients and health-care professionals.
- Trial name
- NCT04876274
- Testing
- TMU-LOVE
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 181 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Taipei Medical University
Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder
Lifestyle Intervention for Young Adults With Serious Mental Illness
This is a four year project evaluating the effectiveness of a group-based lifestyle intervention (PeerFIT) supported by mobile health (mHealth) technology and social media compared to Basic Education in fitness and nutrition…
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT02815813
- Testing
- PeerFIT, BEAT
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
HIV
HOPE Social Media Intervention for HIV Testing and Studying Social Networks
This study [HOPE: Harnessing Online Peer Education] seeks to determine the efficacy of using online social networks to scale peer community leader models to increase HIV prevention within African-American and Latino men who have…
- Trial name
- NCT02944877
- Testing
- social media intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 900 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Irvine
Psychology, Social, Adolescent Behavior
Exposure to Gun Violence in Video Games Increases Interest in Real Guns
More American children die by accidental gun use than children in other developed countries. One factor that can influence children's interest in guns is exposure to media containing guns.
- Trial name
- NCT03259139
- Testing
- Video games and violence
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Psychology, Social, Adolescent Behavior
Viewing Movie Violence & Interest in Guns
More American children die by accidental gun use than children in other developed countries. One factor that can influence children's interest in guns is exposure to media containing guns.
- Trial name
- NCT03220412
- Testing
- Movies with Guns
- Volunteers
- 104 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Health Status Unknown
Social-Media Intervention in Reducing Tanning in High-Risk Tanners
This randomized clinical trial studies how well social-media intervention works in reducing tanning in high-risk indoor and outdoor tanners.
- Trial name
- NCT03441321
- Testing
- Lifestyle and Values Intervention, Lifestyle Intervention, Survey Administration
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 407 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Jerod L Stapleton, PhD
Smoking Cessation
Twitter-enabled Mobile Messaging for Smoking Relapse Prevention (Tweet2Quit)
Tweet2Quit is an innovative smoking cessation intervention that combines real-time online peer-to-peer support with auto messaging.
- Trial name
- Tweet2Quit (NCT02823028)
- Testing
- NRT, Web Guide, Tweet2Quit
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 980 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Irvine
Weight Loss, Diet Modification
The Healthy Moms Study: Comparison of a Post-Partum Weight Loss Intervention Delivered Via Facebook or In-Person Groups
The goal of the project is to conduct a feasibility pilot randomized trial comparing delivery of a post-partum weight loss intervention via Facebook versus via in-person group sessions.
- Conditions
- Weight Loss, Diet Modification, Physical Activity
- Trial name
- NCT03700736
- Testing
- Healthy Moms
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 62 people
- Sponsor
- University of Connecticut