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. 2019 Oct 22;2019(10):CD006611. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006611.pub5

Wilson 2016.

Methods Study design: RCT
Country: USA
Recruitment: VAMC patients were sent a letter and were called to complete a telephone survey
Study dates: 2017
Participants Baseline characteristics (n = 310)
  • Mean age: 57 years

  • Female: 10.9% (N = 34)

  • High school or lower education: 34.2% (N = 106)

  • FTND: 4

  • White: 98.4% (N = 305)


Inclusion criteria: ≥ 18 years of age, enrolled at Durham VAMC for ongoing medical care, current smoker willing to make a quit attempt in the next 30 days, and English speaking
Exclusion criteria: no access to telephone, severely impaired hearing or speech, active diagnosis of a psychotic disorder, extended serious illness, and current hospitalisation
Interventions Control: cognitive‐behavioral telephone counselling and a tele‐medicine clinic for access to NRT
Intervention: as above, plus a mobile contingency management app. Participants were required to record CO readings, upload readings via the app, and use the app to check receipt of compensation and abstinence incentives. Incentives were provided for submitting CO readings pre‐QD and for abstinence post‐QD
Outcomes Definition of abstinence: self‐reported prolonged abstinence at 6 months
Funding source Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service
Conflicts of interest Quote: "The authors have no conflicts of interest to report"
Notes Only published on clinicaltrials.gov (trials register) at this point
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Permuted block randomisation generated a priori using computerised methods
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Randomisation was concealed from study staff for each participant until completion of baseline measures; however details of how this was concealed were not given
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Outcome measures collected by phone surveys. There was minimal contact with researchers.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk 18/156 in intervention group lost to follow‐up, 15/154 in control group lost to follow‐up.