Text2Quit: an analysis of participant engagement in the mobile smoking cessation program.

Background: Text2Quit, an interactive text-messaging program aimed at smoking cessation, has been shown to increase quit rates, but engagement has not been thoroughly explored. Understanding the program features associated with engagement and behavior change is integral for effective program design.

Objectives: This study explored participants' interaction with the Text2Quit text-messaging program and associations between engagement and smoking cessation.

Measurement invariance across administration mode: Examining the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist.

The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist (PCL) is commonly used to screen for PTSD in clinical and research contexts. While the PCL is utilized within numerous settings and populations, research has not yet established the extent to which individuals respond similarly across different modes of administration. The use of both telephone and web survey administration modes has numerous potential benefits, including data quality improvement, but may introduce an additional source of measurement error.

Navigating the Road to Reintegration: Status and Continuing Support of the U.S. Air Force's Wounded Warriors.

The U.S. Air Force, wanting to gain greater insight into the well-being of its members who have sustained mental or physical injuries in combat or combat-related situations, including their quality of life and the challenges they will confront in their reintegration following separation or retirement, asked the RAND Corporation for assistance in gauging the current status of the Air Force's wounded warriors, including their use of and satisfaction with Air Force programs designed to serve them.

Combined Quitline Counseling and Text Messaging for Smoking Cessation: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation.

Introduction: This study seeks to determine whether comprehensive quitline services combined with text messaging improve smoking cessation rates beyond those achieved by offering comprehensive quitline services alone.

Methods: The study sample consisted of callers to the Alere Wellbeing, Inc, commercial quitline in 2012. A quasi-experimental design was implemented using propensity score matching to create the intervention and control groups.

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Text Messaging Program for Smoking Cessation in Israel.

Text messaging programs on mobile phones have been shown to promote smoking cessation. This study investigated whether a text-messaging program for smoking cessation, adapted from QuitNowTXT, is feasible in Israel and acceptable to Israeli smokers. Participants (N = 38) were given a baseline assessment, enrolled in the adapted text messaging program, and followed-up with at 2 weeks and 4 weeks after their quit date.

Barriers to compliance with Oregon batterer intervention program standards.

Although standards for batterer intervention programs (BIPs) have been adopted in nearly all U.S. states, there is no evidence that standards are implemented and no information about challenges programs may encounter in efforts to comply with standards.

A randomized trial of Text2Quit: a text messaging program for smoking cessation.

Background: Text messaging programs on mobile phones have shown some promise in helping people quit smoking. Text2Quit is an automated, personalized, interactive mobile health program that sends text messages to offer advice, support, and reminders about quitting smoking.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of Text2Quit on biochemically confirmed repeated point prevalence abstinence in the context of an RCT conducted in the U.

The impact of legislative standards on batterer intervention program practices and characteristics.

Changes in social policy are often pursued with the goal of reducing a social problem by improving prevention efforts, intervention program practices, or participant outcomes. State legislative standards for intimate partner violence intervention programs have been adopted nearly universally across the US, however, we do not know whether such standards actually achieve the intended goal of affecting programs' policies and practices. To assess the effect that batterer intervention program (BIP) standards have on policies and practices of programs, this study used longitudinal surveys collected as part of an ongoing evaluation conducted from 2001 to the present to compare intervention program (N = 74) characteristics and practices at three time points before and after the adoption of standards in Oregon.