Webinar: Prof. Felix Naughton - An automated, online RCT to evaluate a Just-In-Time Adaptive smoking cessation smartphone app (Quit Sense)

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In this webinar Prof. Naughton will talk about an automated RCT evaluating a smartphone app called Quit Sense. Quit Sense is a theory-guided Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) app which provides smokers attempting to quit with in-the-moment support to manage cue-induced cravings. The app uses location sensing to tailor the timing and content of support messages to high-risk locations. In this RCT, recruitment, enrolment, randomization, intervention delivery and most data collection were fully automated via the study website. In addition, an automated randomized study-within-a-trial (SWAT) was undertaken to assess the impact of different levels of incentive to promote completion of follow-up measures. The app also included the trial of an automated process evaluation tool, as well as a traditional process evaluation using qualitative interviews. During the talk, key aspects of the methodology will be covered as well as key findings.

Speaker:

Felix Naughton is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. He is co-lead of the UEA Addictions Research Group and a registered health psychologist. He has a key research interest in the development and evaluation of digital interventions to promote and support health behaviour change, particularly innovative technology-mediated approaches, such as Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions. He currently leads a research programme focused on mobile phone-based smoking cessation interventions. Felix has served on multiple national policy and practice committees, including as a topic expert on behaviour change related NICE (UK) advisory committees.