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Digital Education for Health Professions on Smoking Cessation Management: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking, one of the leading causes of preventable death and disease, is associated with 7 million deaths every year. This is estimated to rise to more than 8 million deaths per year by 2030, with 80% occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Digital education, teaching, and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30829576 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/13000 |
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author | Semwal, Monika Whiting, Penny Bajpai, Ram Bajpai, Shweta Kyaw, Bhone Myint Tudor Car, Lorainne |
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description | BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking, one of the leading causes of preventable death and disease, is associated with 7 million deaths every year. This is estimated to rise to more than 8 million deaths per year by 2030, with 80% occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Digital education, teaching, and learning using digital technologies have the potential to increase educational opportunities, supplement teaching activities, and decrease distance barriers in health professions education. OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the effectiveness of digital education compared with various controls in improving learners’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and satisfaction to deliver smoking cessation therapy. The secondary objectives were to assess patient-related outcomes, change in health professionals’ practice or behavior, self-efficacy or self-rated competence of health professionals in delivering smoking cessation therapy, and cost-effectiveness of the interventions. METHODS: We searched 7 electronic databases and 2 trial registers for randomized controlled trials published between January 1990 and August 2017. We used gold standard Cochrane methods to select and extract data and appraise eligible studies. RESULTS: A total of 11 studies (number of participants, n=2684) were included in the review. All studies found that digital education was at least as effective as traditional or usual learning. There was some suggestion that blended education results in similar or greater improvements in knowledge (standardized mean difference, SMD=0.19, 95% CI −0.35 to 0.72), skill (SMD=0.58, 95% CI 0.08-1.08), and satisfaction (SMD=0.62, 95% CI 0.12-1.12) compared with digital education or usual learning alone. There was also some evidence for improved attitude (SMD=0.45, 95% CI 0.18-0.72) following digital education compared with usual learning. Only 1 study reported patient outcomes and the setup cost of blended education but did not compare outcomes among groups. There were insufficient data to investigate what components of the digital education interventions were associated with the greatest improvements in learning outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: The evidence suggests that digital education is at least as effective as usual learning in improving health professionals’ knowledge and skill for delivering smoking cessation therapy. However, limitations in the evidence base mean that these conclusions should be interpreted with some caution. TRIAL REGISTRATION: PROSPERO CRD42016046815; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=46815 |
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spelling | pubmed-64215232019-04-17 Digital Education for Health Professions on Smoking Cessation Management: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration Semwal, Monika Whiting, Penny Bajpai, Ram Bajpai, Shweta Kyaw, Bhone Myint Tudor Car, Lorainne J Med Internet Res Review BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking, one of the leading causes of preventable death and disease, is associated with 7 million deaths every year. This is estimated to rise to more than 8 million deaths per year by 2030, with 80% occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Digital education, teaching, and learning using digital technologies have the potential to increase educational opportunities, supplement teaching activities, and decrease distance barriers in health professions education. OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the effectiveness of digital education compared with various controls in improving learners’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and satisfaction to deliver smoking cessation therapy. The secondary objectives were to assess patient-related outcomes, change in health professionals’ practice or behavior, self-efficacy or self-rated competence of health professionals in delivering smoking cessation therapy, and cost-effectiveness of the interventions. METHODS: We searched 7 electronic databases and 2 trial registers for randomized controlled trials published between January 1990 and August 2017. We used gold standard Cochrane methods to select and extract data and appraise eligible studies. RESULTS: A total of 11 studies (number of participants, n=2684) were included in the review. All studies found that digital education was at least as effective as traditional or usual learning. There was some suggestion that blended education results in similar or greater improvements in knowledge (standardized mean difference, SMD=0.19, 95% CI −0.35 to 0.72), skill (SMD=0.58, 95% CI 0.08-1.08), and satisfaction (SMD=0.62, 95% CI 0.12-1.12) compared with digital education or usual learning alone. There was also some evidence for improved attitude (SMD=0.45, 95% CI 0.18-0.72) following digital education compared with usual learning. Only 1 study reported patient outcomes and the setup cost of blended education but did not compare outcomes among groups. There were insufficient data to investigate what components of the digital education interventions were associated with the greatest improvements in learning outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: The evidence suggests that digital education is at least as effective as usual learning in improving health professionals’ knowledge and skill for delivering smoking cessation therapy. However, limitations in the evidence base mean that these conclusions should be interpreted with some caution. TRIAL REGISTRATION: PROSPERO CRD42016046815; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=46815 JMIR Publications 2019-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6421523/ /pubmed/30829576 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/13000 Text en ©Monika Semwal, Penny Whiting, Ram Bajpai, Shweta Bajpai, Bhone Myint Kyaw, Lorainne Tudor Car. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 04.03.2019. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Review Semwal, Monika Whiting, Penny Bajpai, Ram Bajpai, Shweta Kyaw, Bhone Myint Tudor Car, Lorainne Digital Education for Health Professions on Smoking Cessation Management: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration |
title | Digital Education for Health Professions on Smoking Cessation Management: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration |
title_full | Digital Education for Health Professions on Smoking Cessation Management: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration |
title_fullStr | Digital Education for Health Professions on Smoking Cessation Management: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration |
title_full_unstemmed | Digital Education for Health Professions on Smoking Cessation Management: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration |
title_short | Digital Education for Health Professions on Smoking Cessation Management: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration |
title_sort | digital education for health professions on smoking cessation management: systematic review by the digital health education collaboration |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30829576 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/13000 |
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