Effect of adding a virtual community (bulletin board) to smokefree.gov: randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Demand for online information and help exceeds most other forms of self-help. Web-assisted tobacco interventions (WATIs) offer a potentially low-cost way to reach millions of smokers who wish to quit smoking and to test various forms of online assistance for use/utilization and user satisfaction.

Objectives

Our primary aim was to determine the utilization of and satisfaction with 2 versions of a smoking cessation website (smokefree.gov), one of which included an asynchronous bulletin board (BB condition). A secondary goal was to measure changes in smoking behavior 3 months after enrollment in the study.

Methods

All participants were adult federal employees or contractors to the federal government who responded to an email and indicated a willingness to quit

SUBMITTER: Stoddard JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2630832 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature