Trial reportTrials2017
Using smartphones to decrease substance use via self-monitoring and recovery support: study protocol for a randomized control trial.
Trial report in Trials, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02132481 (Using Smartphones to Provide Recovery Support Services Experiment), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Using Smartphones to Provide Recovery Support Services Experiment
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Smartphone Apps for the Treatment of Mental Disorders: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Pooled it
- Electronic and other new media technology interventions for HIV care and prevention: a systematic review.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2020Pooled it
- Methodological Challenges in Randomized Controlled Trials on Smartphone-Based Treatment in Psychiatry: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- Evaluation of a mobile application to decrease opioid misuse in patients undergoing cesarean section: a randomized controlled trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Trial
- A randomized clinical trial of smartphone self-managed recovery support services.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Trial
- Delivering Personalized Protective Behavioral Drinking Strategies via a Smartphone Intervention: a Pilot Study.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Trial
- Using ecological momentary assessments to predict relapse after adult substance use treatment.Addictive behaviors · 2018Trial
- Tobacco Use Trajectories and Associated Changes in Biometrics and Sleep During the First 72 Weeks of Wearable Membership: Observational Cohort Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Observational
- Telehealth and Pharmacotherapy: The Role of Synchronous and Novel Asynchronous Digital Health Tools in Psychiatry.Pharmaceutical medicine · 2025Review
- Affect-laden risk profiles derived from two days of EMA predict substance use and quality of life three- and six-months after SUD treatment.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
- Narrowing the Patient-Physician Gap Based on Self-Reporting and Monthly Hepatologist Feedback for Patients With Alcohol-Related Liver Disease: Interventional Pilot Study Using a Journaling Smartphone App.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Digital Interventions for Relapse Prevention, Illness Self-Management, and Health Promotion In Schizophrenia: Recent Advances, Continued Challenges, and Future Opportunities.Current treatment options in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Time-varying effect modeling with intensive longitudinal data: Examining dynamic links among craving, affect, self-efficacy and substance use during addiction recovery.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
- A Mobile App for Postoperative Pain Management Among Older Veterans Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty: Mixed Methods Feasibility and Acceptability Pilot Study.JMIR perioperative medicine · 2023Article
- Communication between patients, peers, and care providers through a mobile health intervention supporting medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder.Patient education and counseling · 2022Article
- Daily associations among craving, affect, and social interactions in the lives of patients during residential opioid use disorder treatment.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021Article
- Text-Messaging, Online Peer Support Group, and Coaching Strategies to Optimize the HIV Prevention Continuum for Youth: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2019Article
- Just-in-Time but Not Too Much: Determining Treatment Timing in Mobile Health.Proceedings of the ACM on interactive, mobile, wearable and ubiquitous technologies · 2018Article
- Before and after: craving, mood, and background stress in the hours surrounding drug use and stressful events in patients with opioid-use disorder.Psychopharmacology · 2018Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundAlcohol abuse, other substance use disorders, and risk behaviors associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) represent three of the top 10 modifiable causes of mortality in the US. Despite evidence that continuing care is effective in sustaining recovery from substance use disorders and associated behaviors, patients rarely receive it. Smartphone applications (apps) have been effective in delivering continuing care to patients almost anywhere and anytime. This study tests the effectiveness of two components of such apps: ongoing self-monitoring through Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) and immediate recovery support through Ecological Momentary Interventions (EMIs). METHODS/
designThe target population, adults enrolled in substance use disorder treatment (n = 400), are being recruited from treatment centers in Chicago and randomly assigned to one of four conditions upon discharge in a 2 × 2 factorial design. Participants receive (1) EMAs only, (2) EMIs only, (3) combined EMAs + EMIs, or (4) a control condition without EMA or EMI for 6 months. People in the experimental conditions receive smartphones with the apps (EMA and/or EMI) specific to their condition. Phones alert participants in the EMA and EMA + EMI conditions at five random times per day and present participants with questions about people, places, activities, and feelings that they experienced in the past 30 min and whether these factors make them want to use substances, support their recovery, or have no impact. Those in the EMI and EMA + EMI conditions have continual access to a suite of support services. In the EMA + EMI condition, participants are prompted to use the EMI(s) when responses to the EMA(s) indicate risk. All groups have access to recovery support as usual. The primary outcome is days of abstinence from alcohol and other drugs. Secondary outcomes are number of HIV risk behaviors and whether abstinence mediates the effects of EMA, EMI, or EMA + EMI on HIV risk behaviors. DISCUSSION: This project will enable the field to learn more about the effects of EMAs and EMIs on substance use disorders and HIV risk behaviors, an understanding that could potentially make treatment and recovery more effective and more widely accessible.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, ID: NCT02132481 . Registered on 5 May 2014.
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