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Robyn Whittaker
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 142
Citations - 7538
Robyn Whittaker is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: mHealth & Smoking cessation. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 128 publications receiving 6098 citations. Previous affiliations of Robyn Whittaker include Health Science University & University of Auckland.
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Mobile phone‐based interventions for smoking cessation
TL;DR: The current evidence supports a beneficial impact of mobile phone-based smoking cessation interventions on six-month cessation outcomes, and most included studies were of text message interventions in high-income countries with good tobacco control policies.
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Smoking cessation support delivered via mobile phone text messaging (txt2stop): a single-blind, randomised trial
Caroline Free,Rosemary Knight,Steven Robertson,Robyn Whittaker,Phil Edwards,Weiwei Zhou,Anthony Rodgers,John Cairns,Michael G. Kenward,Ian Roberts +9 more
TL;DR: The txt2stop smoking cessation programme significantly improved smoking cessation rates at 6 months and should be considered for inclusion in smoking cessation services.
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Effect of Lifestyle-Focused Text Messaging on Risk Factor Modification in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Clara K Chow,Clara K Chow,Julie Redfern,Graham S. Hillis,Graham S. Hillis,Graham S. Hillis,Jay Thakkar,Jay Thakkar,Karla Santo,Maree L. Hackett,Stephen Jan,Nicholas Graves,Laura de Keizer,Tony Barry,Severine Bompoint,Sandrine Stepien,Robyn Whittaker,Anthony Rodgers,Aravinda Thiagalingam,Aravinda Thiagalingam +19 more
TL;DR: Among patients with coronary heart disease, the use of a lifestyle-focused text messaging service compared with usual care resulted in a modest improvement in LDL-C level and greater improvement in other cardiovascular disease risk factors.
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Mobile phone-based interventions for smoking cessation
TL;DR: In this article, mobile phone-based interventions are evaluated to determine whether they are effective at helping smokers to quit smoking in the short-term but not much is known about long-term efficacy.
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Mobile phone text messaging and app‐based interventions for smoking cessation
TL;DR: There is moderate-certainty evidence that automated text message-based smoking cessation interventions result in greater quit rates than minimal smoking cessation support and moderate- Certainty evidence of the benefit of text messaging interventions in addition to other smoking cessation supported interventions.