Large multi-centre pilot randomized controlled trial testing a low-cost, tailored, self-help smoking cessation text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit).

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To estimate the effectiveness of pregnancy smoking cessation support delivered by short message service (SMS) text message and key parameters needed to plan a definitive trial.

Design

Multi-centre, parallel-group, single-blinded, individual randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Sixteen antenatal clinics in England.

Participants

Four hundred and seven participants were randomized to the intervention (n = 203) or usual care (n = 204). Eligible women were < 25 weeks gestation, smoked at least one daily cigarette (> 5 pre-pregnancy), were able to receive and understand English SMS texts and were not already using text-based cessation support.

Intervention

All participants received a smoking cessation leaflet; intervention participants also received a 12-

SUBMITTER: Naughton F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5488183 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature