Assessing efficacy of a web-based smoking cessation tool - QuitAdvisorMD: Protocol for a practice-based, clustered, randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death, yet physicians inconsistently provide best-practices cessation advice to smokers. Point-of-care digital health tools can prompt and assist physicians to provide improved smoking cessation counseling. QuitAdvisorMD is a comprehensive web-based counseling and management digital health tool designed to guide smoking cessation counseling at the point-of-care. The tool enables clinicians to assess patient readiness to change and then deliver stage-appropriate interventions, while also incorporating Motivational Interviewing techniques. We present the research protocol to assess the efficacy of QuitAdvisorMD to change frequency and quality of smoking cessation counseling and its effect on patient quit rates.

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SUBMITTER: Strayer SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10884820 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature