Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of computer and other electronic aids for smoking cessation: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

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An evidence-based approach to the use of telehealth in long-term health conditions: development of an intervention and evaluation through pragmatic randomised controlled trials in patients with depression or raised cardiovascular risk

“…There are a number of systematic reviews assessing the effect of telehealth interventions on individual CVD risk factors, particularly in the areas of hypertension, 9,143,150,157 tobacco use [158][159][160][161] and obesity. [162][163][164][165] However, risk factors for CVD should not be considered in isolation, since it is the combination of factors that determine a person's risk of CVD.…”

Network Meta-Analysis for Complex Social Interventions: Problems and Potential

“…Even with 51 studies, analyses of interactions between components were underpowered. Chen et al (2012) used a twodimensional coding system to define smoking cessation interventions by their combination of electronic and non-electronic components. Theoretically important aspects of interventions were well specified but the resulting network had 36 distinct conditions, requiring 35 parameters to be estimated from only 28 studies.…”

“…The number of applications to complex social interventions remains small (Bafeta, Trinquart, Seror, & Ravaud, 2013), but is likely to grow rapidly as statistical methods afford greater flexibility, software implementations become increasingly accessible, and more social researchers learn about the method and its advantages. Three of the five examples of which we are aware were published in the past 2 years (Barth et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2012;Cooper et al, 2012;Hasselblad, 1998;Welton, Caldwell, Adamopoulos, & Vedhara, 2009), and network metaanalysis was proposed in a recently published Campbell Collaboration protocol (Wilen, Littell, & Salanti, 2013).…”

Feasibility of a Proactive Text Messaging Intervention for Smokers in Community Health Centers: Pilot Study (Preprint)

“…Prior studies indicate that text messaging interventions for smokers increase tobacco abstinence rates by 36% to 70%. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] However, most prior text-messaging studies recruited motivated smokers through public advertisements, the internet, or school-based recruitment. The few text messaging studies that recruited smokers from healthcare settings targeted motivated smokers, [14] those already in tobacco treatment programs, [15] pregnant smokers, [16] or patients with coronary disease.…”