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A novel experience-based internet intervention for smoking cessation: feasibility randomised controlled trial

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Title
A novel experience-based internet intervention for smoking cessation: feasibility randomised controlled trial
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BMC Public Health, November 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3821-3
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John Powell, Nikki Newhouse, Angela Martin, Sena Jawad, Ly-Mee Yu, Mina Davoudianfar, Louise Locock, Sue Ziebland

Abstract

The 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. A 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. Eighty-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. It 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'. ISRCTN29549695 DOI 10.1186/ISRCTN29549695 . Registered 17/05/2013.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 88 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 14%
Researcher 11 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Student > Bachelor 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 28 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 16 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 9%
Social Sciences 5 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 28 32%
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