Engagement With a Mobile Chat-Based Intervention for Smoking Cessation: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Determining how individuals engage with digital health interventions over time is crucial to understand and optimize intervention outcomes.

Objective

To identify the engagement trajectories with a mobile chat-based smoking cessation intervention and examine its association with biochemically validated abstinence.

Design, setting, and participants

A secondary analysis of a pragmatic, cluster randomized clinical trial conducted in Hong Kong with 6-month follow-up. From June 18 to September 30, 2017, 624 adult daily smokers were recruited from 34 community sites randomized to the intervention group. Data were analyzed from March 6 to October 30, 2023.

Intervention

Chat-based cessation support delivered by a live counselor via a mobile instant messaging

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11208971 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature