Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2016
Online community use predicts abstinence in combined Internet/phone intervention for smoking cessation.
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- Behavioural interventions delivered through interactive social media for health behaviour change, health outcomes, and health equity in the adult population.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Telephone counselling for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Improving Adherence to Smoking Cessation Treatment: Smoking Outcomes in a Web-based Randomized Trial.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2018Trial
- Social media for tobacco smoking cessation intervention: a review of the literature.Current addiction reports · 2019Article
- Mining User-Generated Content in an Online Smoking Cessation Community to Identify Smoking Status: A Machine Learning Approach.Decision support systems · 2019Article
- Conversation Within a Facebook Smoking Cessation Intervention Trial For Young Adults (Tobacco Status Project): Qualitative Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2018Article
- Informal Caregivers' Experiences and Perceptions of a Web-Based Peer Support Network: Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Article
- The failure to increase social support: it just might be time to stop intervening (and start rigorously observing).Translational behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Weekly enrollment and usage patterns in an Internet smoking cessation intervention.Internet interventions · 2017Article
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- Engagement and attrition in Internet smoking cessation interventions: Insights from a cross-sectional survey of "one-hit-wonders".Internet interventions · 2016Article
- A Multirelational Social Network Analysis of an Online Health Community for Smoking Cessation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo estimate the causal effects of online community use on 30-day point prevalence abstinence at 3 months among smokers that received a combined Internet/phone intervention for smoking cessation.
methodParticipants were 399 adult smokers selected from the combined Internet/phone arm of The iQUITT Study (Graham et al., 2011), a randomized trial of Internet and proactive telephone counseling for smoking cessation. All selected participants had accessed a web-based smoking-cessation program with an established online community and received at least one telephone counseling call. Automated tracking metrics of passive (e.g., reading posts, viewing profiles) and active (e.g., writing posts, sending messages) community use were extracted at 3 months. Self-selected community use defined the groups of interest as None, Passive, and Both (passive and active). Inverse probability of treatment weighting corrected for baseline imbalances on demographic, smoking, and psychosocial variables. Propensity weights estimated via generalized boosted models were used to calculate average treatment effects (ATE) and average treatment effects on the treated (ATT).
resultsPatterns of community use were None = 145 (36.3%), Passive = 82 (20.6%), and Both = 172 (43.1%). ATE-weighted abstinence rates were None = 12.2% (95% CI = 6.7-17.7), Passive = 25.2% (95% CI = 15.1-35.2), and Both = 35.5% (95% CI = 28.1-42.9). ATT-weighted abstinence rates indicated even greater benefits of passive community use by nonusers.
conclusionsMore than 1/3 of the participants who used the community both passively and actively achieved abstinence. Participation in an established online community as part of a combined Internet/phone intervention has the potential to promote short-term abstinence. Results also demonstrated that information and support that originate in the community can serve as a resource for all users. (PsycINFO Database Record
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