Randomised Controlled Trial Evaluation of Tweet2Quit: A Social Network Quit-Smoking Intervention
Initiatives
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A novel Twitter-deliveredintervention for smoking cessation, Tweet2Quit, whichsends daily, automated communications to small,private, self-help groups to encourage high-quality,online, peer-to-peer discussions was evaluate.
Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.
- Start Year
- 2012
- End Year
- 2013
- Funding
- This research was supported by an NIH R34 Innovation grant DA030538
Design
- Study design
- Clinical trial cohort
Marker Paper
Pechmann C, Delucchi K, Lakon CM, Prochaska JJ. Randomised controlled trial evaluation of Tweet2Quit: a social network quit-smoking intervention. Tob Control. 2017;26(2):188‐194. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052768
PUBMED 26928205
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 160
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Timeline
smokers
Participants were 160 smokers (4 cohorts of 40/cohort), aged 18-59 years, who intended to quit smoking, used Facebook daily, texted weekly, and had mobile phones with unlimited texting.
Selection Criteria
- Minimum age
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18
- Maximum age
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58
- Newborns
- Twins
- Countries
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- United States of America
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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- Other criteria
- smokers
Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- General population
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 160
- Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Event
A novel Twitter-deliveredintervention for smoking cessation, Tweet2Quit, whichsends daily, automated communications to small,private, self-help groups to encourage high-quality,online, peer-to-peer discussions was evaluate.
- Start Date
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2012-01
- End Date
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2014-06
- Data sources
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Social media
- Tweet2Quit
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Social media