NCT03206619

A Health Recommeder System to Tailor Message Preferences in a Smoking Cessation Programme

Study on Patient Acceptance and Engagement of Timely Tailored Motivational Messages Sent by a Health Recommender System and Delivered Via a Mobile App for Smoking Cessation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Seville · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients attending the smoking cessation programme at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital under the SoLoMo clinical trial of the SmokeFreeBrain project and provided with the SoLoMo mobile app will be observed for one year. This mobile app which sends the patients tailored health motivational messages selected by a health recommender system, and based on their user profile retrieved from an electronic health record. Patients' messages feedback and interactions with the app will be analyzed and evaluated following an observational prospective methodology to see whether patients like the messages, and measure the patient engagement with the health recommender system.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Health Behavior
• Smoking, Tobacco
• Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Social, Local and Mobile	Patients in a smoking cessation program will use a mobile application to receive messages and rate them from their smartphones. The messages patient will receive belong to one of the following five topics: general motivation, diet tips, physical exercise tips, personal performance, and the benefits of being a non-smoker. For each one of these topics, there will be a pool of 150 different messages with tailored information for the patient. Topics and messages were approved by a smoking cessation psychologist and a pulmonologist. The selection of the time the messages have to be sent, and the message topic is selected by an health recommender system algorithm based on the patients' user profile (demographic information, message rating information, and app interaction information).

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2018-10-31
• Completion: 2018-10-31
• First posted: 2017-07-02
• Last updated: 2019-06-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain