Quit4Baby Evaluation
| Status: | Completed |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Smoking Cessation, Women's Studies |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Pulmonary / Respiratory Diseases, Reproductive |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 14 - 44 |
| Updated: | 4/21/2016 |
| Start Date: | April 2015 |
Developing and Scaling a Text Messaging Tool to Help Pregnant Smokers
The goal of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness (Phase II) of a text-based program
to be called Quit4Baby to support smoking cessation efforts of pregnant women who smoke.
In Phase II, Dr. Abroms will conduct a randomized clinical trial among 500 pregnant smokers
who have been recruited from users of text4baby - the first large scale mobile health
application in the United States. Developed and operated by Voxiva and Healthy Mothers,
Healthy Babies (HMHB)—collaborators in this program -text4baby is a free national service
that has enrolled more than 800,000 pregnant women and mothers of infants 0-1 nationwide and
delivered more than 150 million health messages to them including messages encouraging them
not to smoke during pregnancy and referring them to quit lines.
Hypothesis 1: Pregnant smokers who receive quit4Baby + text4Baby will demonstrate higher
levels of knowledge about the dangers of second hand smoke and the benefits of smoking
cessation for mothers and their infants than text4baby only users.
Hypothesis 2: Pregnant smokers who receive quit4baby + text4baby will report significantly
higher rates of calling a quit line, discussions with their health provider and/or use of
cessation counseling than those who receive Text4baby alone.
Hypothesis 3: Pregnant smokers who receive quit4baby + text4baby will have significantly
more favorable quitting outcomes compared with text4baby alone.
to be called Quit4Baby to support smoking cessation efforts of pregnant women who smoke.
In Phase II, Dr. Abroms will conduct a randomized clinical trial among 500 pregnant smokers
who have been recruited from users of text4baby - the first large scale mobile health
application in the United States. Developed and operated by Voxiva and Healthy Mothers,
Healthy Babies (HMHB)—collaborators in this program -text4baby is a free national service
that has enrolled more than 800,000 pregnant women and mothers of infants 0-1 nationwide and
delivered more than 150 million health messages to them including messages encouraging them
not to smoke during pregnancy and referring them to quit lines.
Hypothesis 1: Pregnant smokers who receive quit4Baby + text4Baby will demonstrate higher
levels of knowledge about the dangers of second hand smoke and the benefits of smoking
cessation for mothers and their infants than text4baby only users.
Hypothesis 2: Pregnant smokers who receive quit4baby + text4baby will report significantly
higher rates of calling a quit line, discussions with their health provider and/or use of
cessation counseling than those who receive Text4baby alone.
Hypothesis 3: Pregnant smokers who receive quit4baby + text4baby will have significantly
more favorable quitting outcomes compared with text4baby alone.
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Subscribe to the text4baby test messaging program
2. Pregnant
3. Smoke or recently quit (within last 2 weeks)- Smoking will be defined as self-report
of smoking at least one cigarette in the past 7 days. Given that these individuals
are recruited from text4baby users, we are confident that they will have cell phones
and text messaging capacity.
4. Speak English
5. Willing to enroll in our study
6. 14 years old or older
Exclusion Criteria:
1. No longer subscribe to text4baby
2. Not pregnant
3. Not current smoker (within past 2 weeks)
4. Non-English speakers
5. Not willing to receive Quit4Baby messages or enroll in study
6. Younger than 14 years of age
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