Trial reportPloS one2020
mHealth smoking cessation intervention among high school students: 3-month primary outcome findings from a randomized controlled trial.
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- Treatment of Nicotine Use in Adolescents Under 18 Years of Age: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025Guideline
- Effectiveness of a Mobile Phone-Delivered Multiple Health Behavior Change Intervention (LIFE4YOUth) in Adolescents: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Mediated effects of a randomised control trial for a text messaging smoking cessation intervention for online help-seekers and primary care visitors.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- Effectiveness of Text Messaging in Encouraging Smoking Cessation among Non-Communicable Disease Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2024Trial
- Effects of a text messaging smoking cessation intervention amongst online help-seekers and primary health care visitors: findings from a randomised controlled trial.BMC medicine · 2023Trial
- Assessment of a Text Message-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Adult Smokers in China: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Six-Month Outcomes from the NEXit Junior Trial of a Text Messaging Smoking Cessation Intervention for High School Students: Randomized Controlled Trial With Bayesian Analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2021Trial
- Social Circumstances Affecting Asthma: A Group Concept Mapping Study of School Stakeholders.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · 2026Article
- Mobile Health Interventions for Adolescent Smoking Prevention: A Scoping Review.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2026Article
- Differential predictors of smoking quit attempts between single- and poly-tobacco-using adolescents: a Korean national survey analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Behavioral smoking cessation outcomes among industrial workers in Myanmar following a health belief model-based health education and mobile phone short message service intervention.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Comparison of smoking behaviors and associated factors between HIV-infected and uninfected men in Guilin, China: a case-control study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Nursing Practice and Telehealth in School Health Services: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Pilot Testing of an mHealth App for Tobacco Cessation in People Living With HIV: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Promoting Healthy Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Intellectual Disability: Protocol for Developing a Digital Intervention With Co-Design Workshops.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Avoiding Under- and Overrecruitment in Behavioral Intervention Trials Using Bayesian Sequential Designs: Tutorial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Article
- mHealth intervention for multiple lifestyle behaviour change among high school students in Sweden (LIFE4YOUth): protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Effects of a Text Messaging Smoking Cessation Intervention Among Online Help Seekers and Primary Health Care Visitors in Sweden: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Using a Bayesian Group Sequential Design.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Implementing Facilitated Access to a Text Messaging, Smoking Cessation Intervention Among Swedish Patients Having Elective Surgery: Qualitative Study of Patients' and Health Care Professionals' Perspectives.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundSmoking among adolescents remains a global public health issue as youth continue to maintain high prevalence rates. The evidence for the efficacy of text messaging interventions to reduce smoking behavior is well established, yet there is still a need for studies targeting high school students. The aim of the study was to determine the effectiveness of a text-based smoking cessation intervention among high school students in Sweden.
methodsThe study was a two-arm randomized trial conducted from January 10 2018 to January 11 2019, data were analysed from April 12 2019 to May 21 2019. Inclusion criteria were high school students who were daily or weekly smokers willing to attempt to quit smoking and owned a mobile phone. The study invited all students at 630 high schools units throughout Sweden. The intervention group received text messages based on components of effective smoking cessation interventions for 12 weeks. The control group were offered treatment as usual. The primary outcomes were self-reported prolonged abstinence (not having smoked more than 5 cigarettes over the last 8 weeks) and 4-week point prevalence of smoking abstinence.
findingsA total of 535 participants, with a median age of 17 (IQR 16-18), were randomized into the study; 276 (164 [59.4%] women) were allocated to the intervention and 259 (162 [62.5%] women) to the control group. The outcomes of the trial were analyzed on a total of 212 (76.8%) participants in the intervention group and 201 (77.6%) participants in the control group. Prolonged abstinence at the 3-month follow-up was reported by 49 (23.1%) individuals in the intervention group and 39 (19.4%) individuals in the control group (adjusted OR, 1.21; 95% CI, 0.73-2.01; P value, .46). Four-week point prevalence of complete smoking cessation was reported by 53 (25.0%) individuals in the intervention group and 31 (15.4%) individuals in the control group (adjusted OR, 1.87; 95% CI, 1.12-3.17; P value, .018).
conclusionsEstimates of 4-week point prevalence of complete cessation was 10 percentage points higher in the group that were given access to the intervention compared to the control. Findings provide confirmation that text messaging-based smoking cessation programs can affect quit rates among adolescents.
trial registrationISRCTN15396225; registration date October 13, 2017, https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-018-3028-2.
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