Blended Smoking Cessation Treatment: Exploring Measurement, Levels, and Predictors of Adherence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Blended face-to-face and Web-based treatment is a promising way to deliver cognitive behavioral therapy. Since adherence has been shown to be a measure for treatment's acceptability and a determinant for treatment's effectiveness, in this study, we explored adherence to a new blended smoking cessation treatment (BSCT).

Objective

The objective of our study was to (1) develop an adequate method to measure adherence to BSCT; (2) define an adequate degree of adherence to be used as a threshold for being adherent; (3) estimate adherence to BSCT; and (4) explore the possible predictors of adherence to BSCT.

Methods

The data of patients (N=75) were analyzed to trace adherence to BSCT delivered at an outpatient smoking cessation clinic. In total, 18 patient activit

SUBMITTER: Siemer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6094087 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature