Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking has numerous health consequences and is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Mindfulness has the ability to enhance resilience to stressors and can strengthen an individual's ability to deal with discomfort, which may be particularly useful when managing withdrawal and craving to smoke. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to evaluate feasibility results from an intervention that provides real-time, real-world mindfulness strategies to a sample of racially and ethnically diverse smokers making a quit attempt. METHODS: This study uses a microrandomized trial design to deliver mindfulness-based strategies in real time to individuals attempting to quit smoking. Data will be collected via wearable sensors, a study smartphone, and questionnaires filled out during the in-person study visits. RESULTS: Recruitment is complete, and data management is ongoing. CONCLUSIONS: The data collected during this feasibility trial will provide preliminary findings about whether mindfulness strategies delivered in real time are a useful quit smoking aid that warrants additional investigation. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinicaltrials.gov NCT03404596; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03404596. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/22877.
Source: JMIR Research Protocols
DOI: 10.2196/22877
Institutions: Moffitt Cancer Center, University of Utah, University of Memphis
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,900
Awards: Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K) - OVERALL, Applying mHealth to Tobacco-related Health Disparities: Enhancing aspects of Resiliency to aid Cessation Efforts, Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Novel use of mHealth data to identify states of vulnerability and receptivity to JITAIs
OpenAlex ID: W3130762827