Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27388626›Full record

Trial reportThe journal of primary prevention2016

Text Message Delivered Peer Network Counseling for Adolescent Smokers: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Michael Mason, Jeremy Mennis, Thomas Way, Nikola Zaharakis, Leah Floyd Campbell, Eric G Benotsch, Lori Keyser-Marcus, Laura King

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in The journal of primary prevention, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Tobacco cessation interventions for young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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  12. Mobile Health Interventions for Adolescent Smoking Prevention: A Scoping Review.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2026
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  19. Engagement and Short-term Abstinence Outcomes Among Blacks and Whites in the National Cancer Institute's SmokefreeTXT Program.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Michael MasonDepartment of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Institute for Child & Family Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980489, Richmond, VA, 23298-0489, USA. Mjmason@vcu.edu.
Jeremy MennisTemple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Thomas WayVillanova University, Villanova, PA, USA.
Nikola ZaharakisDepartment of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Institute for Child & Family Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980489, Richmond, VA, 23298-0489, USA.
Leah Floyd CampbellDepartment of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Institute for Child & Family Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980489, Richmond, VA, 23298-0489, USA.
Eric G BenotschDepartment of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Institute for Child & Family Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980489, Richmond, VA, 23298-0489, USA.
Lori Keyser-MarcusDepartment of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Institute for Child & Family Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980489, Richmond, VA, 23298-0489, USA.
Laura KingDepartment of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Institute for Child & Family Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980489, Richmond, VA, 23298-0489, USA.
Virginia Commonwealth University · USTemple University · USVillanova University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although adolescent tobacco use has declined in the last 10 years, African American high school seniors' past 30-day use has increased by 12 %, and as they age they are more likely to report lifetime use of tobacco. Very few urban youth are enrolled in evidenced-based smoking prevention and cessation programming. Therefore, we tested a text messaging smoking cessation intervention designed to engage urban youth through an automated texting program utilizing motivational interviewing-based peer network counseling. We recruited 200 adolescents (90.5 % African American) into a randomized controlled trial that delivered either the experimental intervention of 30 personalized motivational interviewing-based peer network counseling messages, or the attention control intervention, consisting of text messages covering general (non-smoking related) health habits. All adolescents were provided smart phones for the study and were assessed at baseline, and at 1, 3, and 6 months post intervention. Utilizing repeated measures general linear models we examined the effects of the intervention while controlling for race, gender, age, presence of a smoker in the home, and mental health counseling. At 6 months, participants in the experimental condition significantly decreased the number of days they smoked cigarettes and the number of cigarettes they smoked per day; they significantly increased their intentions not to smoke in the future; and significantly increased peer social support among girls. For boys, participants in the experimental condition significantly reduced the number of close friends in their networks who smoke daily compared to those in the control condition. Effect sizes ranged from small to large. These results provide encouraging evidence of the efficacy of text messaging interventions to reduce smoking among adolescents and our intervention holds promise as a large-scale public health preventive intervention platform.

Indexed as

CounselingSmoking CessationText MessagingAdolescentFemaleHumansMalePeer GroupSmokersSocial SupportAdolescentsHealthMobilePeer network counselingRandomized controlled trialSmoking cessationText-messaging

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PMID27388626
OpenAlexW2463395950

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