Testing the Decoy Effect to Increase Tobacco Treatment Uptake
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Brief summary
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Prior research has shown that the context in which program options are presented to consumer impacts consumer choice (known as the 'decoy effect'). The aims of this study are to: (1) test whether the decoy effect can impact smokers' selection of hypothetical tobacco treatment options; (2) examine sociodemographic moderators of the decoy effect; and and (3) examine whether presenting the time and clinical effectiveness of of the different treatment options modifies the decoy effect.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04200157
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 600 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 10, 2018 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Jul 22, 2019 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jul 22, 2019 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Jun 15, 2023
2018 – 2019
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYU Langone Health - Translational Research Building | New York | New York | 10016 | — |
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- Last update posted Jun 15, 2023 · Synced Oct 8, 2026
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