Effectiveness of a Conversational Chatbot (Dejal@bot) for the Adult Population to Quit Smoking: Pragmatic, Multicenter, Controlled, Randomized Clinical Trial in Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco addiction is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality worldwide, but only 1 in 20 cessation attempts is supervised by a health professional. The potential advantages of mobile health (mHealth) can circumvent this problem and facilitate tobacco cessation interventions for public health systems. Given its easy scalability to large populations and great potential, chatbots are a potentially useful complement to usual treatment.

Objective

This study aims to assess the effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention to quit smoking via a chatbot in smartphones compared with usual clinical practice in primary care.

Methods

This is a pragmatic, multicenter, controlled, and randomized clinical trial involving 34 primary health care centers w

SUBMITTER: Olano-Espinosa E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9274388 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature