A Health Recommeder System to Tailor Message Preferences in a Smoking Cessation Programme

University of Seville

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking, Tobacco; Health Behavior; Smoking; Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Other: Social, Local and Mobile

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03206619

H2020-681120

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients attending the smoking cessation programme at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital under the SoLoMo clinical trial of the SmokeFreeBrain project and provided with the SoLoMo mobile app will be observed for one year. This mobile app which sends the patients tailored health motivational messages selected by a health recommender system, and based on their user profile retrieved from an electronic health record. Patients' messages feedback and interactions with the app will be analyzed and evaluated following an observational prospective methodology to see whether patients like the messages, and measure the patient engagement with the health recommender system.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients must be taken from the the smoking cessation unit of the Virgen del Rocio University Hospital (Seville, Spain)
• Patients must be willing to start the treatment to quit smoking
• Patients must own an Android smartphone and be able to interact with it
• Patients must be willing to and install the "Libre de Humos" smoking cessation app recommended by the doctor in the SmokeFreeBrain study.
• Patients must sign an informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Patients have known previous adverse effects on the pharmacological treatment included in the study (Bupropion & Varenicline)

Trial design

120 participants in 1 patient group

Social, Local and Mobile

Description:

Patients having smoking cessation standard care (behavioral and pharmacological therapy) and using the SoLoMo mobile app that sends them motivational messages.

Treatment:

Other: Social, Local and Mobile