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ArticleGames for health journal2019

Gamification to Motivate the Unmotivated Smoker: The "Take a Break" Digital Health Intervention.

Amanda C Blok, Rajani S Sadasivam, Daniel J Amante, Ariana Kamberi, Julie Flahive, Jeanne Morley, Joseph Conigliaro, Thomas K Houston

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Article in Games for health journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Amanda C Blok1Center for Health care Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts.
Rajani S Sadasivam2Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Daniel J Amante2Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Ariana Kamberi2Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Julie Flahive2Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Jeanne Morley3Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York.
Joseph Conigliaro3Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York.
Thomas K Houston2Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Funding

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCEUL1RR031982 · NCRR · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI SULLIVAN, JOHN LEWIS · 2010 to 2011
$6.8M
Take a Break: mHealth-assisted skills building challenge for unmotivated smokersR01CA190866 · NCI · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI SADASIVAM, RAJANI · 2015 to 2019
$3.0M
Developing Smokers for Smoker (S4S): A Collective Intelligence tailoring systemK07CA172677 · NCI · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI SADASIVAM, RAJANI · 2013 to 2017
$702k
NCI NIH HHS K07 CA172677NCI NIH HHS R01 CA190866NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR031982
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Software DesignAdultFeasibility StudiesFemaleHealth PromotionHumansMaleMiddle AgedSmokersSmoking CessationDigital technologyeHealthGame design theoryMotivational interventionTobacco cessationUsability and feasibility testing

Identifiers

PMID31219347
PMCPMC6686688

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