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L Siemer, M Brusse-Keizer, M Postel, S. Ben Allouch, P Patrinopoulos, R Sanderman , M Pieterse. HOW DO WE MEASURE ADHERENCE TO A BLENDED SMOKING CESSATION TREATMENT?. Background: Blended Treatment. promising way to deliver behavioral change interventions
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L Siemer, M Brusse-Keizer, M Postel, S. Ben Allouch, P Patrinopoulos, R Sanderman, M Pieterse HOW DO WE MEASURE ADHERENCE TO A BLENDED SMOKING CESSATION TREATMENT?
Background: Blended Treatment promising way to deliver behavioral change interventions combining the strengths of face-to-face (F2F) treatment with the unique features of Web-based care ”best of both worlds”
Background: Adherence • Primary determinant of treatment effectiveness (dose-response relationship) • Definition of adherence: • extent to which a person’s behavior—taking medication, following a diet, or executing lifestyle changes—corresponds with recommendations from a health care provider (WHO) • Measurement • F2F: completed tasks and/or attended sessions • Web: log-ins, module completion, time spend online, messages/emails, print requests …
Questions • How do we measure adherence to a blended treatment? • Develop and compare two measure (time vs. features) • Do they classify equally into adherent/non-adherent? • How valid are the measures? • Which advantages/disadvantages has each measure?
Method: studyparticipants BSCT • Subset of an RCT on the effectiveness of BSCT versus F2F-treatment as usual • Outpatient smoking cessation clinic at the Medical Spectrum Twente hospital (Enschede/The Netherlands) • Inclusion criteria • being at least 18 years old, • currently smoking (at least one cigarette a day) • having access to email and internet • being able to read and write Dutch
Method: studyintervention BSCT A combination of F2F-treatment and Web-based sessions blended into one integrated smoking cessation treatment delivered in routine care settings Consists of 5 F2F sessions at the outpatient clinic and 5 Web-based sessions (50-50 balance between F2F and Web) High-intensity treatment (6h total) derived from the Dutch Guideline Tobacco Addiction, fulfilling the requirements of the Dutch care module for smoking cessation
Time-basedmeasure • Summing up time in treatment based on hospital administration, eg.: • First individual F2F session 50 min • Usual F2F session 20 min • Usual Web session 20 min • Telephone consult 20 min • ... • Adherence (60%-threshold) • At least 80/130 min. spent in F2F sessions • AND • At least 60/100 min. spent in Web sessions
Features-basedmeasure • Active use of treatment features (based on patients‘ records of the outpatient clinic and the Web-platform) that ... • … refer to a relevant evidence-based behavior change technique (eg. goal setting, action plan) • … trace both F2F and Web-based behaviors of patients (eg, attending face-to-face treatment sessions as in “Think differently [F2F]” or completion of predefined Web-based tasks as in “Think differently” [Web]”) • … are objective (eg.receiving a message, unblocking a Web-based tool, filling in a minimal number of data in a Web-based tool such as eg. a smoking diary) • Adherence (60%-threshold) • Active use of at least 5/8 F2F features • AND • At least 6/10 Web features
Results: How do patients adhere (60%-threshold)? Minutes-based measure: 33 (47.1%) adherent, 37 (52.9%) non-adherent Features-based measure: 14 (20%) adherent, 56 (80%) non-adherent
Results: How do we measure adherence? Validity • Construct (both good) • Convergent • Minutes-based measure: correctly classified the patients in 70% of the cases • Feature-based measure: correctly classified the patients in 81.4% of the cases • Divergent: adherence was unrelated to non-adherence-related patients' baseline characteristics for both measures • Content (good) • Cohen's kappa test showed moderate agreement between the evaluation of adherence using the minutes-based and the features-based measure (κ = .438, p < .001) - agreement in the classification of 51 (72.9%) patients • Criterion • Concurrent (good): adherence assessed using the minutes-based measure was highly correlated with adherence evaluated using the features-based measure (rho(70) = .529, p < .001) • Predictive (unequal) • Minutes-based measure: adherence not associated with smoking abstinence (N=38, p = .47) • Feature-based measure: adherence associated with smoking abstinence (N=17, p = .03)
Conclusion Both adherence measures correlate reasonably well with each other. Both adherence measures have useful content, construct and divergent validity. Predictive validity is only found for the content-based measure. Both methods seem adequate for clinical research. Measure can be chosen based on advantages and disadvantages of each measure.
Literature Siemer, L., Pieterse, M. E., Brusse-Keizer, M. G., Postel, M. G., Allouch, S. B., & Sanderman, R. (2016). Study protocolfor a non-inferioritytrialof a blended smokingcessationtreatment versus face-to-face treatment (LiveSmokefree-Study). BMC publichealth, 16(1), 1187. Siemer, L., Brusse-Keizer, M. G., Postel, M. G., Allouch, S. B., Bougioukas, A. P., Sanderman, R., & Pieterse, M. E. (2018). Blended Smoking Cessation Treatment: Exploring Measurement, Levels, andPredictorsofAdherence. Journal ofmedical Internet research, 20(8). Patrinopoulos Bougioukas, A. (2017). Adherence to blended smoking cessation treatment (Master's thesis, University of Twente).