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- Title
RESEARCH REPORT The effectiveness of personally tailored computer-generated advice letters for smoking cessation.
- Authors
Borland, Ron; Balmford, James; Hunt, Deon
- Abstract
To assess the effectiveness of a new computer-generated tailored advice programme designed to be used by smokers and recent quitters having problems staying stopped. Randomized trial comparing a series of questionnaire assessments leading to tailored computer-generated advice letters mailed at strategically relevant times, to a no extra treatment control sent standardized printed self-help materials. Victoria, Australia. A total of 1058 smokers or recent quitters recruited from callers to the Quitline. Smoking status and sustained abstinence at 12-month follow-up, plus extent of participation in the intervention. Using a conservative analysis (missing data coded as a treatment failure), 6-month sustained abstinence was reported by significantly more participants in the computer-generated tailored advice (20%) than the standard printed materials condition (12%) at 12-month follow-up OR 1.82 (1.31–2.55)). Group differences in point prevalence abstinence (28% intervention, 25% control) were not significant. Among participants in the tailored advice condition, 6-month sustained abstinence was associated with the number of advice letters received. The provision of a series of tailored, computer-generated advice letters resulted in greater rates of sustained cessation than for controls. A dose–response relationship was found, with increased compliance with the intervention associated with improved cessation outcomes. The programme appears to have much of its effect by preventing relapse.
- Publication
Addiction, 2004, Vol 99, Issue 3, p369
- ISSN
0965-2140
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1360-0443.2003.00623.x