Effectiveness of WhatsApp online group discussion for smoking relapse prevention: protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Sustained psychosocial support via online social groups may help former tobacco users maintain abstinence. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of participating in a WhatsApp social group for long-term smoking cessation.

Design

Two-arm, open-labelled, pragmatic, individually randomized controlled trial.

Setting

All participants are service users of smoking cessation clinics, and all interventions are delivered via mobile phones.

Participants

Participants included 1008 adult quitters who self-report no tobacco use in the past 3-30 days.

Interventions

The intervention group (n = 504) will join a WhatsApp social group to receive standardized and theory-based reminders of smoking relapse prevention and participate in discussion wi

SUBMITTER: Cheung YTD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7496257 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature