Intervention targeting and retention, engagement and abstinence outcomes among Latino and White users of Smokefree.gov text messaging programmes: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We examined retention, engagement, and abstinence among Latino users of SmokefreeTXT en Español (SFTXTesp), a Latino-targeted text messaging smoking cessation intervention, and Latino and White users of SmokefreeTXT (SFTXT), a non-targeted intervention.

Methods

Data came from 12281 users (1562 Latino SFTXTesp users and 2301 Latino and 8418 White SFTXT users). We conducted time-to-dropout analyses by race/ethnicity. Using logistic regression, we examined associations between intervention targeting, race/ethnicity, and responses to smoking status prompts, an engagement metric, and self-reported abstinence on quit day, intervention end, and one-month follow-up. Age, gender, census region, smoking frequency, cigarettes smoked per day, prequit time, and number of quit

SUBMITTER: El-Toukhy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10732326 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature