Comparison of mHealth and Face-to-Face Interventions for Smoking Cessation Among People Living With HIV: Meta-Analysis.
Olalekan Abdulrahman UthmanChidozie U NdukaMustapha S AbbaRocio EnriquezHelena NordenstedtFred NalugodaAndre Pascal KengneAnna Mia EkströmPublished in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2019)
Compared with face-to-face interventions, mHealth-delivered interventions can better increase smoking cessation rate in the short term. The evidence that mHealth increases smoking cessation rate in the short term is encouraging but not sufficient to allow a definitive conclusion presently. Future research should focus on strategies for sustaining smoking cessation treatment effects among PLHIV in the long term.