Using Behavioral Intervention Technologies to Help Low-Income and Latino Smokers Quit: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Institute for International Internet Interventions for Health at Palo Alto University proposes to develop digital tools specifically to help low-income English- and Spanish-speaking smokers to quit. Individuals from lower-income countries and those with lower social status quit at lower rates than those from high-income countries and those with higher social status.

Objective

We plan to launch a project designed to test whether a mobile-based digital intervention designed with systematic input from low-income English- and Spanish-speaking smokers from a public-sector health care system can significantly improve its acceptability, utilization, and effectiveness.

Methods

Using human-centered development methods, we will involve low-income patients in the

SUBMITTER: Munoz RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4925932 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature