S-PC: An e-treatment application for management of smoke-quitting patients

Vilaplana, Jordi; Solsona, Francesc; Abella, Francesc; Cuadrado, Josep; Alves, Rui; Mateo, Jordi

doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.03.005

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“…Brendyen (2008) emphasized that SMS and webpages with both e-mail and interactive voice response improved treatment outcomes (eg, repeated point abstinence, NRT adherence, and self-efficacy) compared to those who received only self-help material and NRT. 53 Meanwhile, there was greater evidence of effectiveness when a tobacco tactics website was combined with nurse counseling via phone and NRT, when compared with eHealth smoking cessation intervention without human contact (eg, quit-line group, 97 nicotine mini-lozenges supported by a website, 90 a smoke-free”website for people living with HIV/AIDS, 98 e-treatment software with mobile text messages, 99 web-based smoking-cessation with tailored achievement stories 100 ). In contrast, some RCTs were unable to show substantial effects of webpage smoking treatment plus NRT for HIV-positive smokers.…”

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Which eHealth interventions are most effective for smoking cessation? A systematic review

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Tran²,

Pham³

et al. 2018

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PurposeTo synthesize evidence of the effects and potential effect modifiers of different electronic health (eHealth) interventions to help people quit smoking.MethodsFour databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Embase, and The Cochrane Library) were searched in March 2017 using terms that included “smoking cessation”, “eHealth/mHealth” and “electronic technology” to find relevant studies. Meta-analysis and meta-regression analyses were performed using Mantel–Haenszel test for fixed-effect risk ratio (RR) and restricted maximum-likelihood technique, respectively. Protocol Registration Number: CRD42017072560.ResultsThe review included 108 studies and 110,372 participants. Compared to nonactive control groups (eg, usual care), smoking cessation interventions using web-based and mobile health (mHealth) platform resulted in significantly greater smoking abstinence, RR 2.03 (95% CI 1.7–2.03), and RR 1.71 (95% CI 1.35–2.16), respectively. Similarly, smoking cessation trials using tailored text messages (RR 1.80, 95% CI 1.54–2.10) and web-based information and conjunctive nicotine replacement therapy (RR 1.29, 95% CI 1.17–1.43) may also increase cessation. In contrast, little or no benefit for smoking abstinence was found for computer-assisted interventions (RR 1.31, 95% CI 1.11–1.53). The magnitude of effect sizes from mHealth smoking cessation interventions was likely to be greater if the trial was conducted in the USA or Europe and when the intervention included individually tailored text messages. In contrast, high frequency of texts (daily) was less effective than weekly texts.ConclusionsThere was consistent evidence that web-based and mHealth smoking cessation interventions may increase abstinence moderately. Methodologic quality of trials and the intervention characteristics (tailored vs untailored) are critical effect modifiers among eHealth smoking cessation interventions, especially for web-based and text messaging trials. Future smoking cessation intervention should take advantages of web-based and mHealth engagement to improve prolonged abstinence.

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Which eHealth interventions are most effective for smoking cessation? A systematic review

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Tran²,

Pham³

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“…An SLA is a contract negotiated and agreed between a customer and a service provider for which a customer only pays for the resources and services used according to negotiated performance requirements at a given price [8,11]. Throughput is one of the most important performance metric in a cloud-computing context [8,11]. It was also the performance parameter chosen in this work to fix the SLA.…”

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“…This require the use of cloud computing services [12]. Earlier versions of the concept underlying 2 HBPF [8,11,13] were tested in a private cloud-based server, before moving the HM into a real-world cloud environment. These applications used SMS communications between clinicians and patients.…”

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“…Studies have shown the positive impact of mHealth on adherence-related behavior among patients. For example, short message service (SMS) appointment reminders have led to an increase in attendance of HIV [21], tuberculosis [22], and quitting tobacco patients [11,13]. Patient-physician short messaging through a telemedicine system was also tested as a means to improve control of hypertension in the follow-up of medium-to-low-risk patients in primary care [23].…”

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HBPF: a Home Blood Pressure Framework with SLA guarantees to follow up hypertensive patients

Cuadrado¹,

Vilaplana

Mateo

et al. 2016

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Hypertension or high blood pressure is a condition on the rise. Not only does it affect the elderly but is also increasingly spreading to younger sectors of the population. Treating it involves exhaustive monitoring of patients. A tool adapted to the particular requirements of hypertension can greatly facilitate monitoring and diagnosis. This paper presents HBPF, an efficient cloud-based Home Blood Pressure Framework. This allows hypertensive patients to communicate with their health-care centers, thus facilitating monitoring for both patients and clinicians. HBPF provides a complete, efficient, and cross-platform framework to follow up hypertensive patients with an SLA guarantee. Response time below one second for 80,000 requests and 28% increase in peak throughput going from one to 3 virtual machines were obtained. In addition, a mobile app (BP) for Android and iOS with a user-friendly interface is also provided to facilitate following up hypertensive patients. Among them, between 54% and 87% favorably evaluated the tool. BP can be downloaded for free from the website Hesoft Group repository (http://www.hesoftgroup.eu).

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“…A preliminary web-based server, called SHUITE (Simple Health Universal and Integral Treatment Environment), that supported monitoring of hypertensive [8] and tobacco-quitting [21] patients by sending SMS messages was developed by our research group. The ability to perform bidirectional communication between patients and clinicians made the proposal innovative and a very useful tool for hypertension and tobacco-quitting patients.…”

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BPcontrol

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Pifarré²,

Vilaplana³

et al. 2016

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SummaryBackground: Hypertension or high blood pressure is on the rise. Not only does it affect the elderly but is also increasingly spreading to younger sectors of the population. Treating this condition involves exhaustive monitoring of patients. The current mobile health services can be improved to perform this task more effectively. Objective: To develop a useful, user-friendly, robust and efficient app, to monitor hypertensive patients and adapted to the particular requirements of hypertension. Methods: This work presents BPcontrol, an Android and iOS app that allows hypertensive patients to communicate with their health-care centers, thus facilitating monitoring and diagnosis. Usability, robustness and efficiency factors for BPcontrol were evaluated for different devices and operating systems (Android, iOS and system-aware). Furthermore, its features were compared with other similar apps in the literature. Results: BPcontrol is robust and user-friendly. The respective start-up efficiency of the Android and iOS versions of BPcontrol were 2.4 and 8.8 times faster than a system-aware app. Similar values were obtained for the communication efficiency (7.25 and 11.75 times faster for the Android and iOS respectively). When comparing plotting performance, BPcontrol was on average 2.25 times faster in the Android case. Most of the apps in the literature have no communication with a server, thus making it impossible to compare their performance with BPcontrol. Conclusions: Its optimal design and the good behavior of its facilities make BPcontrol a very promising mobile app for monitoring hypertensive patients.

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S-PC: An e-treatment application for management of smoke-quitting patients

Cited by 12 publications

References 38 publications

Which eHealth interventions are most effective for smoking cessation? A systematic review

Which eHealth interventions are most effective for smoking cessation? A systematic review

HBPF: a Home Blood Pressure Framework with SLA guarantees to follow up hypertensive patients

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