Trial reportBMC public health2016
A novel experience-based internet intervention for smoking cessation: feasibility randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04236544 (Impact of a Multimedia Website With Patient Experiences of Multiple Sclerosis), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Impact of a Multimedia Website With Patient Experiences of Multiple Sclerosis (PExMS) on Immunotherapy Decision-making: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial in a Mixed-methods Design
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Participant Recruitment and Retention in Remote eHealth Intervention Trials: Methods and Lessons Learned From a Large Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Web-Based Smoking Interventions.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Trial
- Development and evaluation of a website with patients experiences of multiple sclerosis: a mixed methods study.BMC neurology · 2022Article
- Impact of a multimedia website with patient experiences of multiple sclerosis (PExMS) on immunotherapy decision-making: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial in a mixed-methods design.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2021Article
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8 authors.
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Abstract
backgroundThe internet is frequently used to share experiences of health and illness, but this phenomenon has not been harnessed as an intervention to achieve health behaviour change. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of a randomised trial assessing the effects of a novel, experience-based website as a smoking cessation intervention. The secondary aim was to measure the potential impact on smoking behaviour of both the intervention and a comparator website.
methodsA feasibility randomised controlled single-blind trial assessed a novel, experience-based website containing personal accounts of quitting smoking as a cessation intervention, and a comparator website providing factual information. Feasibility measures including recruitment, and usage of the interventions were recorded, and the following participant-reported outcomes were also measured: Smoking Abstinence Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, the single-item Motivation to Stop Scale, self-reported abstinence, quit attempts and health status outcomes. Eligible smokers from two English regions were entered into the trial and given access to their allocated website for two weeks.
resultsEighty-seven smokers were randomised, 65 completed follow-up (75 %). Median usage was 15 min for the intervention, and 5 min for the comparator (range 0.5-213 min). Median logins for both sites was 2 (range 1-20). All participant-reported outcomes were similar between groups.
conclusionsIt was technically feasible to deliver a novel intervention harnessing the online sharing of personal experiences as a tool for smoking cessation, but recruitment was slow and actual use was relatively low, with attrition from the trial. Future work needs to maximize engagement and to understand how best to assess the value of such interventions in everyday use, rather than as an isolated 'dose of information'.
trial registrationISRCTN29549695 DOI 10.1186/ISRCTN29549695 . Registered 17/05/2013.
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