期刊
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
卷 24, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC
DOI: 10.2196/28704
关键词
Web 2.0; social media; Facebook; Alaska Native; American Indian; Alaska; smoking; cessation; cancer prevention; Quitline; mobile phone
资金
- National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health [R34DA046008]
Social media is an effective tool for reaching and engaging Alaska Native people in smoking cessation efforts. The CAN Quit prototype offers lessons that can be used to create similar platforms benefiting Alaska Native and American Indian populations in smoking cessation contexts.
Social media provides an effective tool to reach, engage, and connect smokers in cessation efforts. Our team developed a Facebook group, CAN Quit (Connecting Alaska Native People to Quit smoking), to promote use of evidence-based smoking cessation resources for Alaska Native people living in Alaska, which are underused despite their effectiveness. Often separated by geography and climate, Alaska Native people prefer group-based approaches for tobacco cessation that support their culture and values. Such preferences make Alaska Native people candidates for social media-based interventions that promote connection. This viewpoint discusses the steps involved and lessons learned in building and beta-testing our Facebook group prototype, which will then be evaluated in a pilot randomized controlled trial. We describe the process of training moderators to facilitate group engagement and foster community, and we describe how we developed and tested our intervention prototype and Facebook group. All parts of the prototype were designed to facilitate use of evidence-based cessation treatments. We include recommendations for best practices with the hope that lessons learned from the CAN Quit prototype could provide a model for others to create similar platforms that benefit Alaska Native and American Indian people in the context of smoking cessation.
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