TY  - JOUR
AU  - Isse, Naohi
AU  - Tachibana, Yuki
AU  - Kinoshita, Makiko
AU  - Fetters, Michael D
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/9/20
TI  - Evaluating Outcomes of a Social Media–Based Peer and Clinician-Supported Smoking Cessation Program in Preventing Smoking Relapse: Mixed Methods Case Study
JO  - JMIR Form Res
SP  - e25883
VL  - 5
IS  - 9
KW  - communication
KW  - mixed methods case study research
KW  - online social networking
KW  - smoking cessation
KW  - smoking relapse
AB  - Background: Smoking relapse prevention after completion of a smoking cessation program is highly germane to reducing smoking rates. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the 1-year outcomes of a social media–based and peer and clinician-supported smoking cessation program on Facebook and examine communication patterns that could support smoking cessation and identify risk of relapse. Methods: We used a mixed methods case study evaluation approach featuring a single-case holistic design. We recruited volunteers who signed up after successful completion of a 12-week clinical smoking cessation program in a general medicine department in Japan. Participants contemporaneously accessed a closed Facebook page, and we analyzed their posts including text and emoticons. We used joint display analysis, which involved iterative structuring and restructuring construct-specific tables with both types of data to find the most effective approach for integrating the quantitative results with the qualitative results of content analysis. Results: One successful participant and 2 relapsed participants were analyzed to explore the specific patterns of postings prior to relapse. Decisive comments about quitting smoking were common among participants, but encouraging messages for peers were more common from the successful participant. Comments seeking social support and reassurance were warning signs of relapse. Conflicted comments also may be a warning sign of relapse risk. Conclusions: These findings based on a mixed methods case study of a social media platform supporting smoking cessation could be used to guide messaging in other online social networking service communities after a smoking cessation program to help reduce smoking relapse. Trial Registration: UMIN Clinical Trials Registry UMIN000031172; https://upload.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000035595 
SN  - 2561-326X
UR  - https://formative.jmir.org/2021/9/e25883
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/25883
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34542412
DO  - 10.2196/25883
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/25883
ER  -