Text2Quit: Results from a Pilot Test of a Personalized, Interactive Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Program
| Autor: | Lalida Thaweethai, Jonathan P. Winickoff, Justin Sims, Richard Windsor, Meenakshi Ahuja, Yvonne Kodl, Lorien C. Abroms |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Program evaluation
Male Telemedicine Health (social science) medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject Pilot Projects Library and Information Sciences computer.software_genre Article User-Computer Interface Young Adult Reading (process) medicine Humans Precision Medicine media_common Protocol (science) Medical education Text Messaging Multimedia business.industry Communication Behavior change Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Smoking cessation Health education Female Smoking Cessation Tracking (education) business computer Follow-Up Studies Program Evaluation |
| Popis: | Text messaging programs on mobile phones have shown some promise in helping people quit smoking. Text2Quit is an automated, personalized and interactive mobile health program that sends text messages and emails timed around a participant’s quit date over the course of 3 months. The text messages include pre- and post-quit educational messages, peer ex-smoker messages, medication reminders and relapse messages, as well as multiple opportunities for interaction. Study participants were university students (n=23) enrolled in the Text2Quit program. Participants were surveyed at baseline and at 2 and 4 weeks post-enrollment. The vast majority of participants agreed that they liked the program at 2 and 4 weeks post-enrollment (90.5% and 82.3%, respectively). Support for text messages was found to be moderate, and higher than that of the email and web components. Seventy-five percent of participants reported reading most or all of the texts. On average, users made 11.8 responses to the texts over a 4 week period, although responses declined following the quit date. The interactive feature for tracking cigarettes was the most used interactive feature, followed by the craving trivia game. This pilot test provides some support for the Text2Quit program. A future iteration of the program will include additional tracking features in both the pre-quit and post-quit protocol and an easier entry into the not-quit protocol. Future studies are recommended that identify the value of the interactive and personalized features that characterize this program. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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