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Text Messaging Promoting Physician-Led Brief Intervention Tobacco Cessation: A Before-And-After Study among Physicians in Three Tertiary Hospitals in Nigeria

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Odukoya, Oluwakemi, Faseru, Babalola, Uguru, Nkolika, Jamda, Mustapha, Onigbogi, Olanrewaju, James, Oluwafunmilola, Leischow, Scott, Ayo-Yusuf, Olalekan·2020·Substance Abuse
DOI 10.1080/08897077.2018.1526844PMC PMC6488441
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Background: Physician-led smoking cessation services are suboptimal in Nigeria. Objectives: This study evaluated a text messaging intervention designed to increase the knowledge and practices of physicians in Nigeria to help smokers quit. Methods: Using a pre-post study design, all physicians ( N = 946) in 3 tertiary care hospitals located in 3 geopolitical zones in Nigeria were sent 2–3 text messages weekly over a 13-week period to create awareness and improve cessation practices using the “Ask, Advise and Refer” (AAR) model. The primary outcomes were the awareness of AAR and the proportion of physicians who offered each of the components of the brief intervention (AAR) to at least half of eligible patients. Secondary outcomes included the attitudes and self-reported effects of the messages on motivation to offer AAR to patients who smoke. Results: Of the 946 eligible respondents, only 165 responded to both the before and after intervention surveys (17.4% participation rate). Participants were more likely to indicate awareness of the AAR approach after the intervention (60%) than before (21.2%). Overall, physicians’ practice of each component of the AAR changed significantly after the intervention ( P < .001; McNemar test). Of the participants, 71.5% reported reading the messages most/all of the time and 84.8% reported that the frequency of the messages was just adequate. Conclusions: A brief and low-cost text messaging intervention to physicians increased the awareness and practice of AAR in those who participated in the study. However, the relatively low participation rate highlights the importance of new research to improve and expand text messaging as an intervention among physicians to help them foster tobacco treatment among their patients.

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  • Sample sizes ranged from 9 to 946.

    “Sample sizes ranged from 9 [42] to 946 [111] (for all studies and not by study design).”

    From A scoping review of substance use brief interventions in Africa (2024) · cites this paper as [111]

    The Methods (Study setting and Program details) say the study targeted 946 physicians and sent messages to all 946. But the Results and Methods (Data analyses) say only 165 completed both surveys and were included in the paired analysis. Thus 946 is the number targeted, not the analyzed sample size; this paper cannot establish the cited range’s lower endpoint of 9. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Authors
Odukoya, O., Faseru, B., Uguru, N., Jamda, M., Onigbogi, O., James, O., Leischow, S., & Ayo-Yusuf, O.
Affiliations
  • University of Lagos (NG)
  • University of Kansas Medical Center (US)
  • University of Nigeria (NG)
  • University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (NG)
  • Breast Without Spot, Lagos, Nigeria;
  • Mayo Clinic in Arizona (US)
  • Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (ZA)
Corresponding author
Odukoya, Oluwakemi
ORCID
Venue
Substance Abuse
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2020-04
Volume
41
Issue
2
Pages
186-190
ISSN
  • 0889-7077 (ISSN-L)
  • 1547-0164
DOI
10.1080/08897077.2018.1526844
PMC
PMC6488441
OpenAlex
W2899070607
Cited by
6
References
14
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1
FWCI
0.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Substance Abuse (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Global Bridges Network and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health
  • National Institutes of Health (K43TW010704)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
Keywords
text messaging intervention, brief intervention, tobacco cessation, physician knowledge and practice, smoking cessation referral, tertiary care hospital, Nigeria
MeSH terms
Adult, Attitude of Health Personnel, Clinical Competence, Education, Medical, Female, Humans, Male, Mass Screening, Middle Aged, Nigeria, Physicians, Referral and Consultation, Tobacco Use Disorder, Tobacco Use Cessation, Text Messaging, Tertiary Care Centers, Tobacco Use, Controlled Before-After Studies

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