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Interpreting the Outcomes of Automated Internet-Based Randomized Trials:
Example of an International Smoking Cessation Study by Yan Leykin, Adrian Aguilera, Leandro D Torres, Eliseo J Pérez-Stable, Ricardo F Muñoz (Published on 07 Feb 2012) Background: Smoking is one of the largest contributors to the global burden of disease. Internet interventions have been shown to reduce smoking rates successfully. However, improved methods of evaluating effectiveness need to be developed for large-scale Internet intervention trials. Objective: To illustrate a method to interpret outcomes of large-scale, fully automated, worldwide Internet intervention trials. Methods: A fully automated, international, Internet-based smoking cessation randomized controlled trial was conducted in Spanish and English, with 16,430 smokers from 165 countries. The randomized controlled trial replicated a published efficacy trial in which, to reduce follow-up attrition, 1000 smokers were followed up by phone if they did not provide online follow-up data.... |
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Usability Evaluation of a Web-Based Support System for People With a Schizophrenia Diagnosis by Lian van der Krieke, Ando C Emerencia, Marco Aiello, Sjoerd Sytema (Published on 06 Feb 2012) Background: Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) is a systematic way of assessing service users’ health conditions for the purpose of better aiding their care. ROM consists of various measures used to assess a service user’s physical, psychological, and social condition. While ROM is becoming increasingly important in the mental health care sector, one of its weaknesses is that ROM is not always sufficiently service user-oriented. First, clinicians tend to concentrate on those ROM results that provide information about clinical symptoms and functioning, whereas it has been suggested that a service user-oriented approach needs to focus on personal recovery. Second, service users have limited access to ROM results and they are often not equipped to interpret them. These problems... |
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