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Crafting Appealing Text Messages to Encourage Colorectal Cancer Screening Test Completion: A Qualitative Study

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2015
BackgroundmHealth interventions that incorporate text messages have great potential to increase receipt of preventive health services such as colorectal cancer screening.
Weaver, Kathryn E, Ellis, Shellie D, Denizard-Thompson, Nancy, Kronner, Donna, Miller, David P   +4 more
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Voice-text messages for the different categories.

, 2022
Voice-text messages for the different categories.
Sarah Nabukeera (9969360), Ian Mugisa (13767473), Patrick Kaggwa (13767476), Stellah Namatovu (11993450), Kenneth Kidonge Katende (13767467), Mercy R. Amiyo (13767470), Simon Kasasa (303183), Simon Peter Atwiine (13767479)   +7 more
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Women’s Perceptions of Participation in an Extended Contact Text Message–Based Weight Loss Intervention: An Explorative Study

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2017
BackgroundExtending contact with participants after the end of an initial weight loss intervention has been shown to lead to maintained weight loss and related behavioral change.
Job, Jennifer R, Spark, Lauren C, Fjeldsoe, Brianna S, Eakin, Elizabeth G, Reeves, Marina M   +4 more
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Long-Term and Transfer Effects of an Action Control Intervention in Overweight Couples: A Randomized Controlled Trial Using Text Messages

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Keeping a physically active lifestyle requires consistent self-regulatory effort such as action control (e.g., continuously monitoring and evaluating a behavior in terms of one’s goals).
Corina Berli, Urte Scholz, Urte Scholz
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The effects of mobile text messages on raising knowledge of men with type 2 diabetes, Isfahan, 2015: an educational experimental study

Electronic Physician, 2018
Background: Diabetes is one of the most common metabolic disorders which are rapidly increasing. Distance training is a cost-effective, easy and accessible way in which time and place dimensions of communication are removed.
Fataneh Goodarzi, Shakiba Zahed, Akbar Hassanzadeh, Mahmood Nasr Esfahani, Mojgan Nourian, Fereshteh Zamani-Alavijeh   +5 more
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Promoting physical activity through text messages: the impact of attitude and goal priority messages

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2021
Introduction Many young adults demonstrate insufficient rates of physical activity (PA) to yield health benefits. The study tested the effectiveness of a text messaging intervention targeting key psychological determinants and PA.
Tom St Quinton, Ben Morris, Martin J. Barwood, Mark Conner   +3 more
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Development and Pilot Testing of Text Messages to Help Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Among Rural Caregivers and Adolescents: Mixed Methods Study

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2019
BackgroundA high consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) poses significant health concerns, particularly for rural adults and adolescents. A manner in which the health of both caregivers and adolescents can be improved is by developing innovative
Yuhas, Maryam, Porter, Kathleen J, Brock, Donna-Jean P, Loyd, Annie, McCormick, Brittany A, Zoellner, Jamie M   +5 more
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Best practices for collecting repeated measures data using text messages

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020
Background Researchers and clinicians use text messages to collect data with the advantage of real time capture when compared with standard data collection methods.
Noa’a Shimoni, Siripanth Nippita, Paula M. Castaño   +2 more
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Initiating the first rheumatic heart disease clinic in Cameroon: A descriptive study

Health Science Reports, 2023
Background and Aim Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a significant cause of heart failure in sub‐Saharan Africa. The causes of death from RHD are multiple, many of which can be prevented with appropriate follow‐up of patients and effective secondary ...
Nelson Njedock, Nathan Yanwou, Maxime Wotol, Beckly Shu, Raisa Azanfack, Clovis Nkoke, David Chelo   +6 more
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Implicit communication of emotions via written text messages

Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2022
In this research I explored the communication of emotions in digital contexts. Specifically, how well are people able to implicitly communicate discrete emotional states with words alone, and what are some of the correlates of this ability?
Thomas Holtgraves
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