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Information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: a descriptive study in primary healthcare
BACKGROUND: Common interventions for smoking cessation are based on medical advice and pharmacological aid. Information and communication technologies may be helpful as interventions by themselves or as complementary tools to quit smoking. The objective of the study was to determine the use of infor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429913/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25971903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-15-2 |
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author | Puigdomènech, Elisa Trujillo-Gómez, Jose-Manuel Martín-Cantera, Carlos Díaz-Gete, Laura Manzano-Montero, Mónica Sánchez-Fondevila, Jessica Gonzalez-Fernandez, Yolanda Garcia-Rueda, Beatriz Briones-Carrió, Elena-Mercedes Clemente-Jiménez, Mª-Lourdes Castaño, Carmen Birulés-Muntané, Joan |
author_facet | Puigdomènech, Elisa Trujillo-Gómez, Jose-Manuel Martín-Cantera, Carlos Díaz-Gete, Laura Manzano-Montero, Mónica Sánchez-Fondevila, Jessica Gonzalez-Fernandez, Yolanda Garcia-Rueda, Beatriz Briones-Carrió, Elena-Mercedes Clemente-Jiménez, Mª-Lourdes Castaño, Carmen Birulés-Muntané, Joan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Common interventions for smoking cessation are based on medical advice and pharmacological aid. Information and communication technologies may be helpful as interventions by themselves or as complementary tools to quit smoking. The objective of the study was to determine the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the smoking population attended in primary care, and describe the major factors associated with its use. METHODS: Descriptive observational study in 84 health centres in Cataluña, Aragon and Salamanca. We included by simple random sampling 1725 primary healthcare smokers (any amount of tobacco) aged 18–85. Through personal interview professionals collected Socio-demographic data and variables related with tobacco consumption and ICTs use were collected through face to face interviews Factors associated with the use of ICTs were analyzed by logistic regression. RESULTS: Users of at least one ICT were predominantly male, young (18–45 years), from most favoured social classes and of higher education. Compared with non-ICTs users, users declared lower consumption of tobacco, younger onset age, and lower nicotine dependence. The percentages of use of email, text messages and web pages were 65.3%, 74.0% and 71.5%, respectively. Factors associated with the use of ICTs were age, social class, educational level and nicotine dependence level. The factor most closely associated with the use of all three ICTs was age; mainly individuals aged 18–24. CONCLUSIONS: The use of ICTs to quit smoking is promising, with the technology of mobile phones having a broader potential. Younger and more educated subjects are good targets for ICTs interventions on smoking cessation. |
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spelling | pubmed-44299132015-05-14 Information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: a descriptive study in primary healthcare Puigdomènech, Elisa Trujillo-Gómez, Jose-Manuel Martín-Cantera, Carlos Díaz-Gete, Laura Manzano-Montero, Mónica Sánchez-Fondevila, Jessica Gonzalez-Fernandez, Yolanda Garcia-Rueda, Beatriz Briones-Carrió, Elena-Mercedes Clemente-Jiménez, Mª-Lourdes Castaño, Carmen Birulés-Muntané, Joan BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Common interventions for smoking cessation are based on medical advice and pharmacological aid. Information and communication technologies may be helpful as interventions by themselves or as complementary tools to quit smoking. The objective of the study was to determine the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the smoking population attended in primary care, and describe the major factors associated with its use. METHODS: Descriptive observational study in 84 health centres in Cataluña, Aragon and Salamanca. We included by simple random sampling 1725 primary healthcare smokers (any amount of tobacco) aged 18–85. Through personal interview professionals collected Socio-demographic data and variables related with tobacco consumption and ICTs use were collected through face to face interviews Factors associated with the use of ICTs were analyzed by logistic regression. RESULTS: Users of at least one ICT were predominantly male, young (18–45 years), from most favoured social classes and of higher education. Compared with non-ICTs users, users declared lower consumption of tobacco, younger onset age, and lower nicotine dependence. The percentages of use of email, text messages and web pages were 65.3%, 74.0% and 71.5%, respectively. Factors associated with the use of ICTs were age, social class, educational level and nicotine dependence level. The factor most closely associated with the use of all three ICTs was age; mainly individuals aged 18–24. CONCLUSIONS: The use of ICTs to quit smoking is promising, with the technology of mobile phones having a broader potential. Younger and more educated subjects are good targets for ICTs interventions on smoking cessation. BioMed Central 2015-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4429913/ /pubmed/25971903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-15-2 Text en © Puigdomènech et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Puigdomènech, Elisa Trujillo-Gómez, Jose-Manuel Martín-Cantera, Carlos Díaz-Gete, Laura Manzano-Montero, Mónica Sánchez-Fondevila, Jessica Gonzalez-Fernandez, Yolanda Garcia-Rueda, Beatriz Briones-Carrió, Elena-Mercedes Clemente-Jiménez, Mª-Lourdes Castaño, Carmen Birulés-Muntané, Joan Information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: a descriptive study in primary healthcare |
title | Information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: a descriptive study in primary healthcare |
title_full | Information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: a descriptive study in primary healthcare |
title_fullStr | Information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: a descriptive study in primary healthcare |
title_full_unstemmed | Information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: a descriptive study in primary healthcare |
title_short | Information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: a descriptive study in primary healthcare |
title_sort | information and communication technologies for approaching smokers: a descriptive study in primary healthcare |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429913/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25971903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-15-2 |
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