Sheila Matano

ORCID: 0009-0007-4312-8230
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Research Areas
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Social Media in Health Education
  • Media Influence and Health

British Columbia Lung Association
2025

The rapid growth in popularity of e-cigarettes over the past decade has prompted concerns about their impact on long-term respiratory health. Small airway injury is suspected to be a direct consequence e-cigarette use and may quantifiable by novel structural functional diagnostic modalities. In multicentre observational longitudinal study, participants will enrolled either an adolescent (ages ≥12 <19 years) or adult arm (≥19 years old) followed 3 across three time points (baseline, 18 months...

10.1136/bmjopen-2025-100568 article EN cc-by-nc-nd BMJ Open 2025-03-01

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> British Columbia residents have access to a program called QuitNow that provides behavioral support and information about pharmacotherapy nicotine tobacco users. While quantitative evidence reveals significant promise for web-based services like QuitNow, there is very little qualitative available. Understanding website utilization experiences of end-users key contextualizing the effectiveness cessation providing directions enhancing these services. </sec>...

10.2196/preprints.55592 preprint EN 2023-12-23

British Columbia residents have access to a program called QuitNow that provides behavioral support and information about pharmacotherapy nicotine tobacco users. Web- or computer-based smoking cessation programs been shown yield an abstinence rate 1.5 times higher when compared control. Although quantitative evidence reveals significant promise for web-based services like QuitNow, there is very little qualitative available. Understanding website utilization the experiences of end users key...

10.2196/55592 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Internet Research 2023-12-23
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