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Rajani Shankar Sadasivam (rajani_s)
University of Massachusetts Medical School
 
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Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)

Crave-Out! A Smartphone Game to Prevent Relapse after Quitting Smoking
Rajani Shankar Sadasivam*, Wayne S Chan, Kavitha Balakrishnan, Kathryn Delaughter, Barrett D. Phillips*, Thomas English, Thomas K Houston*

Background: Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death. Cessation programs have had success; however, most smokers relapse. Strategies to prevent relapse include active management of cravings. Distraction is a key behavioral tool to manage cravings. We designed a smartphone game available at the point-of-need that can be used to distract cravings when they arise and remind smokers of the benefits of quitting smoking. Objective: Describe the development and launch of Crave-Out! ...

Share2Quit: Web-Based Peer-Driven Referrals for Smoking Cessation
Rajani Shankar Sadasivam*, Rebecca Kinney, Sowmya R Rao, Erik M Volz, Thomas K Houston*

To reach the Healthy People objectives of reducing smoking prevalence in the United States, cessation methods must be readily available. Easily disseminated interventions such as Quitlines and smoking cessation websites can potentially reach a greater number of smokers. Yet, these interventions are under-utilized. Outside healthcare, we see several examples of products going “viral” as friends refer their friends to these products. For e.g., Farmville, a social networking game launch...

Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA)

Share2Quit: Facebook Smoker-Smoker Recruitment to an Online Smoking Cessation Intervention
Rajani Shankar Sadasivam*, Sarah L Cutrona, Tana M Luger, Erik M Volz, Rebecca Kinney, Jeroan J Allison, Thomas K Houston

Background: Smoking cessation rates have plateaued in the last 15 years. New methods to engage smokers are needed. Online social networks offer a new opportunity to spread public health interventions, but questions remain on how to do this effectively. Peer-to-peer recruitment has quickly become the method of choice to recruit customers to online commercial systems, but has not been evaluated for public health. Peer recruitment might be particularly suited to recruit smokers as they tend to b...

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JMIR Medical Education

Virtual Patient Technology: Engaging Primary Care in Quality Improvement Innovations
Amanda C Blok, Christine N May, Rajani S Sadasivam, Thomas K Houston
JMIR Med Educ 2017;3(1):e3

JMIR Medical Informatics

Identification of Relationships Between Patients Through Elements in a Data Warehouse Using the Familial, Associational, and Incidental Relationship (FAIR) Initiative: A Pilot Study
Thomas M English, Rebecca L Kinney, Michael J Davis, Ariana Kamberi, Wayne Chan, Rajani S Sadasivam, Thomas K Houston
JMIR Med Inform 2015;3(1):e9

JMIR Research Protocols

Share2Quit: Web-Based Peer-Driven Referrals for Smoking Cessation
Rajani S Sadasivam, Erik M Volz, Rebecca L Kinney, Sowmya R Rao, Thomas K Houston
JMIR Res Protoc 2013;2(2):e37

JMIR Serious Games

Crave-Out: A Distraction/Motivation Mobile Game to Assist in Smoking Cessation
Kathryn L DeLaughter, Rajani S Sadasivam, Ariana Kamberi, Thomas M English, Greg L Seward, S Wayne Chan, Julie E Volkman, Daniel J Amante, Thomas K Houston
JMIR Serious Games 2016;4(1):e3

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Development of an Interactive, Web-Delivered System to Increase Provider–Patient Engagement in Smoking Cessation
Rajani S Sadasivam, Kathryn Delaughter, Katie Crenshaw, Heather J Sobko, Jessica H Williams, Heather L Coley, Midge N Ray, Daniel E Ford, Jeroan J Allison, Thomas K Houston
J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e87

Who Participates in Web-Assisted Tobacco Interventions? The Quit-Primo and National Dental Practice-Based Research Network Hi-Quit Studies
Rajani Shankar Sadasivam, Rebecca L Kinney, Kathryn Delaughter, Sowmya R Rao, Jessica Hillman Williams, Heather L Coley, Midge N Ray, Gregg H Gilbert, Jeroan J Allison, Daniel E Ford, Thomas K Houston, The National Dental PBRN And QUIT-PRIMO Collaborative Groups
J Med Internet Res 2013;15(5):e77

An Observational Study of Social and Emotional Support in Smoking Cessation Twitter Accounts: Content Analysis of Tweets
Mary Rocheleau, Rajani Shankar Sadasivam, Kate Baquis, Hannah Stahl, Rebecca L Kinney, Sherry L Pagoto, Thomas K Houston
J Med Internet Res 2015;17(1):e18

Collective-Intelligence Recommender Systems: Advancing Computer Tailoring for Health Behavior Change Into the 21st Century
Rajani Shankar Sadasivam, Sarah L Cutrona, Rebecca L Kinney, Benjamin M Marlin, Kathleen M Mazor, Stephenie C Lemon, Thomas K Houston
J Med Internet Res 2016;18(3):e42

Health Information Brokers in the General Population: An Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey 2013-2014
Sarah L Cutrona, Kathleen M Mazor, Amenah A Agunwamba, Sruthi Valluri, Patrick M Wilson, Rajani S Sadasivam, Lila J Finney Rutten
J Med Internet Res 2016;18(6):e123

Impact of a Collective Intelligence Tailored Messaging System on Smoking Cessation: The Perspect Randomized Experiment
Rajani Shankar Sadasivam, Erin M Borglund, Roy Adams, Benjamin M Marlin, Thomas K Houston
J Med Internet Res 2016;18(11):e285

Computer Administered Safety Planning for Individuals at Risk for Suicide: Development and Usability Testing
Edwin D Boudreaux, Gregory K Brown, Barbara Stanley, Rajani S Sadasivam, Carlos A Camargo Jr, Ivan W Miller
J Med Internet Res 2017;19(5):e149

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