Table 3.
Program acceptability and feasibility.
| Acceptability and feasibility | 1-month follow-up | 3-month follow-up | ||||||
| Intervention, n=42 |
Control, n=38 |
P | Intervention, n=38 |
Control, n=35 |
P | |||
| I would recommend the text(s) to a friend who was pregnant and smoking, mean (SD) | 4.39 (1.09) | 3.84 (1.42) | .07 | 4.32 (1.09) | 3.74 (1.56) | .08 | ||
| The text(s) was/were helpful in getting me to try to quit smoking, mean (SD) | 3.70 (1.29) | 3.07 (1.51) | .06 | 4.00 (1.09) | 3.12 (1.65) | .003a | ||
| The texts were a trigger and made me want to smoke, mean (SD) | 1.76 (1.22) | ‒ | ‒ | 1.56 (0.97) | ‒ | ‒ | ||
| Number of text messages, n (%) | <.001a | .002a | ||||||
| Too many | 8 (20.00) | 1 (3.45) | 5 (17.24) | 2 (6.06) | ||||
| Just the right number | 31 (77.50) | 15 (51.72) | 20 (68.97) | 12 (36.36) | ||||
| Too few | 1 (2.50) | 13 (44.83) | 4 (13.79) | 19 (57.58) | ||||
| Proportion of text messages read, n (%) | ||||||||
| 100% | 31 (77.50) | – | – | 22 (81.48) | – | – | ||
| 75% | 9 (22.50) | – | – | 3 (11.11) | – | – | ||
| ≤50% | 0 (0.00) | – | – | 2 (7.41) | – | – | ||
| Liked about the programb, n (%) | ||||||||
| Content/information (eg, on harms of smoking) | 18 (42.86) | 13 (34.21) | ||||||
| Social support/other’s people’s quitting stories | 6 (14.29) | 3 (7.89) | ||||||
| Reminders | 6 (14.29) | 2 (5.26) | ||||||
| Encouragement | 4 (9.52) | 2 (5.26) | ||||||
| Interactive tools (eg, GAME, FACT) | 4 (9.52) | – | – | 5 (13.16) | – | – | ||
| General liking | 4 (9.52) | 5 (13.16) | ||||||
| Other (eg, timing, confidence, made accountable) | 4 (9.52) | 5 (13.16) | ||||||
| Disliked about the programb, n (%) | ||||||||
| Nothing | 23 (54.76) | 20 (52.63) | ||||||
| Technical problems | 6 (14.29) | 2 (5.26) | ||||||
| Message frequency (eg, too frequent) | 3 (7.14) | 2 (5.26) | ||||||
| Content (eg, too congratulatory, repetitive) | 2 (4.76) | 1 (2.63) | ||||||
| Text as trigger | 2 (4.76) | – | – | 0 (0.00) | – | – | ||
| Other (needed human element, timing) | 4 (9.52) | 0 (0.00) | ||||||
| Total replies to quit day check-ins, mean (SD) | 2.74 (3.29) | – | – | 3.49 (4.25) | – | – | ||
| Unsubscribed from the program | 2 (4.76) | – | – | 1 (2.63) | – | – | ||
| Experienced any technical problems | 12 (28.57) | 2 (5.26) | .006a | 5 (13.15) | 2 (5.71) | .28 | ||
aP values are statistically significant.
bParticipants could select multiple reasons.