Mobile phone-based interventions for smoking cessation
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Background Innovative effective smoking cessation interventions are required to appeal to those who are not accessing traditional cessation services. Mobile phones are widely used and are now well integrated into the daily lives of many, particularly young adults. Mobile phones are a potential medium for the delivery of health programmes such as smoking cessation. Objectives To determine whether mobile phone-based interventions are effective at helping people who smoke, to quit. Search strategy We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cinahl, PsycINFO, The Cochrane Library, the National Research Register and the ClinicalTrials register, with no restrictions placed on language or publication date. Selection criteria We included randomized or quasi-randomized trials. Participants were smokers of any age who wanted to quit. Studies were those examining any type of mobile phone-based intervention. This included any intervention aimed at mobile phone users, based around delivery via mobile phone, and using any functions or applications that can be used or sent via a mobile phone. Data collection and analysis Information on the specified quality criteria and methodological details was extracted using a standardised form. Participants who dropped out of the trials or were lost to follow up were considered to be smoking. Meta-analysis of the included studies was undertaken using the Mantel-Haenszel Risk Ratio fixed-effect method provided that there was no evidence of substantial statistical hete…
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Studies on the effectiveness of SMS messages for health promotion have also shown improvements in the outcomes of care.
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- Authors
- Whittaker, R., Borland, R., Bullen, C., Lin, R. B., McRobbie, H., & Rodgers, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Cancer Council Victoria (AU)
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- Venue
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- Published
- 2009-10-07
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- CD006611-CD006611
- ISSN
- 1361-6137 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4242852532
- Cited by
- 196
- References
- 11
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- Type
- reference entry
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Mobile Learning in Education
- Keywords
- smoking cessation, mobile phone intervention, text messaging, mobile health, young adults, health behavior change, digital health interventions, outcome misclassification, trial heterogeneity, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Norway
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Counseling, Humans, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Smoking Cessation, Cell Phone
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