Development of an open-source web-based intervention for Brazilian smokers – Viva sem Tabaco

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Software

K. Richter¹  H. P. Gomide²  T. M. Ronzani²  L. F. Martins²  H. S. Bernardino² 

[1] The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA;Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil;

关键词: Smoking cessation;    E-health;    Internet;    Intervention;    Health education;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12911-016-0339-7

 received in 2015-12-03, accepted in 2016-07-20,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundWeb-based interventions for smoking cessation available in Portuguese do not adhere to evidence-based treatment guidelines. Besides, all existing web-based interventions are built on proprietary platforms that developing countries often cannot afford. We aimed to describe the development of “Viva sem Tabaco”, an open-source web-based intervention.ResultsThe development of the intervention included the selection of content from evidence-based guidelines for smoking cessation, the design of the first layout, conduction of 2 focus groups to identify potential features, refinement of the layout based on focus groups and correction of content based on feedback provided by specialists on smoking cessation. At the end, we released the source-code and intervention on the Internet and translated it into Spanish and English.ConclusionsThe intervention developed fills gaps in the information available in Portuguese and the lack of open-source interventions for smoking cessation. The open-source licensing format and its translation system may help researchers from different countries deploying evidence-based interventions for smoking cessation.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2016