Feasibility Trial of a Tailored Smoking Cessation App for People With Serious Mental Illness
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2019-01-17
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Quitting smoking has important health benefits for people with serious mental illness, more
than half of whom are smokers. Smoking reductions in this population, in turn, could
contribute to saving billions of dollars in healthcare expenditures.
Finding ways to deliver more effective and wider reaching smoking cessation interventions to
individuals with serious mental illness is a pressing priority. Smartphone apps are a wide
reaching technology that could provide a viable platform to deliver smoking cessation
interventions for individuals with serious mental illness.
However, do smoking cessation apps need to be tailored for people with serious mental illness
to ensure their success? Or can providers simply use standard and freely available smoking
cessation mobile health treatments designed for the general population? Furthermore, is it
feasible to conduct mHealth trials in this population?
Therefore, this trial will test whether (1) a tailored smoking cessation app for people with
serious mental illness results in higher levels of engagement with smoking cessation content
as compared to an app designed for the general population and (2) smoking cessation mHealth
trials can be feasibly conducted in this population.