ArticleCommunications medicine2024
Increasing digital equity to promote online smoking cessation program engagement among rural adults: a randomized controlled pilot trial.
Article in Communications medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05209451 (Increasing Digital Equity and Access Among Rural Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Increasing Digital Equity and Access Among Rural Patients (IDEA) Study
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Mapping the effectiveness of digital health interventions in promoting electronic cigarette cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- A scoping review of the characteristics, responsibilities, implementations and evaluations of digital navigators in healthcare.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Sociodemographic Drivers of Recruitment and Attrition in Digital Neurological Research: Longitudinal Cohort Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Observational
- Impact of broadband availability and digital literacy on video telehealth use among cancer patients.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Factors associated with enrollment, adherence, and retention in a remotely delivered tobacco cessation randomized controlled trial.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2026Article
- Who Makes It Through the Funnel? Sociodemographic Drivers of Recruitment Completion into an AI-Ready Digital Speech Bank.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundCigarette smoking prevalence is higher for rural than urban adults, yet digital access to cessation programming is reduced. We aim to investigate digital access interventions to promote engagement with an online evidence-based cessation treatment (EBCT) program among rural adults.
methodsThis pilot trial used a pragmatic, three-arm, randomized, parallel-group design (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05209451). Inclusion criteria included being aged ≥18, Mayo Clinic Midwest patient, rural residency, and currently smokes cigarettes. All participants received an online, 12-week EBCT program and were randomized to receive one of three digital access interventions: print materials (control, n = 30); print materials + loaner iPad device with data plan coverage (n = 30); or print materials + loaner device + up to six, 15-20-minute motivational interviewing-based coaching calls to support technology needs (n = 30). A composite score of trial engagement (primary outcome) and self-reported smoking abstinence and use of EBCT resources (secondary outcomes) were assessed online at 4 and 12 weeks. Qualitative interviews were used to assess patient experience. Neither participants nor outcome assessors were blinded to group assignment.
resultsResults are reported for all 30 participants in each group. The average age of participants is 51.0 years and 61% are women. We show no significant arm differences for the trial engagement composite score (p = 0.30). We also find coaching support is significantly (p < 0.05) associated with enhanced smoking-related treatment response, including cigarette abstinence and use of EBCT resources, and participants reported positive experiences with the intervention.
conclusionsThe coaching intervention to support technology needs is acceptable and shows preliminary evidence of its efficacy in smoking-related treatment response. Further studies could refine and implement the coaching intervention for trial engagement and long-term cessation.
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