Development and preliminary pilot evaluation of a brief tablet computer intervention to motivate tobacco quitline use among smokers in substance use treatment.

CONCLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: Our results suggest that TIME-TQ activated these patients to quit smoking, but our referral method (standard fax referral) was unsuccessful in helping participants fully engage in quitline treatment or achieving a period of abstinence.
SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: We are now conducting an RCT to evaluate TIME-TQ with a revised referral procedure intended to increase treatment engagement and, ultimately, abstinence rates. (Am J Addict 2017;XX:1-8).
PMID: 28800182 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: American Journal on Addictions - August 11, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Brown RA, Hecht J, Bloom EL, Minami H, Kahler CW, Abrantes AM, Dubreuil ME, Gordon A, Price LH, Ondersma SJ Tags: Am J Addict Source Type: research