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. 2020 Oct:117:108100.
doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108100. Epub 2020 Aug 5.

Making lemonade from SARS coronavirus-2 lemons: Transitioning a smoking cessation trial to a virtual platform

Martin C Mahoney  1 , Rebecca Ashare  2 , Nicolas Schlienz  3 , CeCe Duerr  4 , Larry W Hawk  5
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Making lemonade from SARS coronavirus-2 lemons: Transitioning a smoking cessation trial to a virtual platform

Martin C Mahoney et al. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2020 Oct.

Abstract

Clinical trials represent an essential component of improving treatment for substance use disorders (SUD). The SARS coronavirus-2 pandemic disrupted our ongoing clinical trial of smoking cessation and forced us to rapidly implement changes to assure participants access to ongoing counseling and monitoring via telephone calls and/or video chat sessions. Our experiences suggest that this pandemic will lead to changes for both future clinical trial participants and project staff. While challenges remain, it will be important to assessing the impact of these changes with regard to participant experiences and treatment outcomes.

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Changes to an on-going smoking cessation clinical trial before and after start of viral pandemic.
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