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Text message intervention designs to promote adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART): a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundThe efficacy of antiretroviral therapy depends on patient adherence to a daily medication regimen, yet many patients fail to adhere at high enough rates to maintain health and reduce the risk of transmitting HIV.
David J Finitsis, Jennifer A Pellowski, Blair T Johnson   +2 more
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Promoting Antenatal Care Attendance Through a Text Messaging Intervention in Samoa: Quasi-Experimental Study

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2020
BackgroundAntenatal care (ANC) has the potential to improve maternal health, but it remains underutilized and unevenly implemented in many low- and middle-income countries.
Watterson, Jessica L, Castaneda, Diego, Catalani, Caricia   +2 more
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Leveraging Text Messaging and Mobile Technology to Support Pediatric Obesity-Related Behavior Change: A Qualitative Study Using Parent Focus Groups and Interviews

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2013
BackgroundText messaging (short message service, SMS) is a widely accessible and potentially cost-effective medium for encouraging behavior change. Few studies have examined text messaging interventions to influence child health behaviors or explored ...
Sharifi, Mona, Dryden, Eileen M, Horan, Christine M, Price, Sarah, Marshall, Richard, Hacker, Karen, Finkelstein, Jonathan A, Taveras, Elsie M   +7 more
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Chinese immigrant smokers’ access barriers to tobacco cessation services and experience using social media and text messaging

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2020
Introduction Smoking rates remain disproportionately high among Chinese immigrants in the US, particularly in males. Community-based smoking cessation services and quitlines have low engagement rates.
Nan Jiang, Yidan Zhang, Xiaokun Qian, Lorna Thorpe, Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Donna Shelley   +5 more
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Initiation of a novel text messaging system in total knee and hip arthroplasty

Arthroplasty
Background The primary objective of this study was to investigate whether using a novel text messaging system improves patient overall satisfaction compared to standard care. Secondary objectives included assessing the impact of the text messaging system
Johannes M. van der Merwe, Michaela E. Nickol   +1 more
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Design Considerations in Developing a Text Messaging Program Aimed at Smoking Cessation

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2012
BackgroundCell phone text messaging is gaining increasing recognition as an important tool that can be harnessed for prevention and intervention programs across a wide variety of health research applications.
Ybarra, Michele L, Holtrop, Jodi Summers, Bağci Bosi, A Tülay, Emri, Salih   +3 more
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The Medium and the Message: Fitting Sound Health Promotion Methodology Into 160 Characters

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2014
Text messaging health promotion projects continue to proliferate due to their relative low-cost, simplicity, non-intrusiveness, and proven effectiveness in several randomized controlled trials.
Lim, Megan S C, Wright, Cassandra, Hellard, Margaret E   +2 more
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Trial Participants’ Perceptions of the Impact of Ecological Momentary Assessment on Smoking Behaviors: Qualitative Analysis

JMIR mHealth and uHealth
BackgroundEcological momentary assessment (EMA) is an increasingly used tool for data collection in behavioral research, including smoking cessation studies.
Elizabeth R Stevens, Rina Li, Grace Xiang, Rachel Wisniewski, Sidney Rojas, Katherine O'Connor, Olivia Wilker, Mahathi Vojjala, Omar El-Shahawy, Scott E Sherman   +9 more
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A Short Message Service Intervention for Improving Infant Feeding Practices in Shanghai, China: Planning, Implementation, and Process Evaluation

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2018
BackgroundAlthough mobile health (mHealth) has been widely applied in health care services, few studies have reported the detailed process of the development and implementation of text messaging (short message service, SMS) interventions ...
Jiang, Hong, Li, Mu, Wen, Li Ming, Baur, Louise A, He, Gengsheng, Ma, Xiaoying, Qian, Xu   +6 more
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The effectiveness of text message-based self-management interventions for poorly-controlled diabetes: A systematic review

Digital Health, 2017
Background Poorly controlled diabetes leads to debilitating complications at a significant cost to health systems. Text messaging is an ideal platform for the delivery of self-management interventions to patients with poorly controlled diabetes due to ...
Rosie Dobson, Robyn Whittaker, Leila Pfaeffli Dale, Ralph Maddison   +3 more
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