U.S., May 2 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06952725) titled 'Chatbot for Online Support Groups to Treat Tobacco Addiction' on April 23.
Brief Summary: We will conduct a pilot RCT to test the efficacy of an intelligent chatbot to aid small, private, quit-smoking peer support groups. Participants will be randomized to an intervention arm (chatbot-enhanced support group), or a control arm (support group only). In the intervention arm (N=60), each support group will be connected to an intelligent chatbot running on a secure local server as a trained LLM (large language model). The intelligent chatbot will function as an additional member of the GroupMe support group, but a member that only responds...