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Text messaging to promote health [PDF]

British Journal of General Practice, 2014
Douglas and Free’s qualitative study1 alongside a randomised controlled trial2 show that text messaging offers a valuable way of supporting people trying to give up smoking. Text messages may also have wider potential in health promotion, including within sexual health.
Clare, Michell, Pippa, Oakeshott
openaire   +2 more sources

Daily Text Messaging for Weight Control Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Women: Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2013
BackgroundDaily self-monitoring of diet and physical activity behaviors is a strong predictor of weight loss success. Text messaging holds promise as a viable self-monitoring modality, particularly among racial/ethnic minority populations ...
Steinberg, Dori M, Levine, Erica L, Askew, Sandy, Foley, Perry, Bennett, Gary G   +4 more
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Text messaging with or without financial incentives versus a waitlist control for weight loss in men: cost-effectiveness analysis of the Game of Stones randomised controlled trialResearch in context

The Lancet Regional Health. Europe
Summary: Background: Cost-effective weight loss interventions are needed for people with obesity, particularly men, who are less likely to engage with weight loss programmes.
Abraham M. Getaneh, Marjon van der Pol, Dwayne Boyers, Alison Avenell, Seonaidh Cotton, Stephan U. Dombrowski, Cindy M. Gray, Frank Kee, Lisa Macaulay, Michelle McKinley, Catriona O’Dolan, James Swingler, Claire Torrens, Katrina Turner, Graeme MacLennan, Pat Hoddinott   +15 more
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Improving Knowledge About Pregnancy for Deaf South African Women of Reproductive Age Through a Text Messaging–Based Information Campaign: Mixed Methods Study

JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 2023
BackgroundSigning Deaf South Africans have limited access to health information and, consequently, limited knowledge about health. Maternal and neonatal mortality rates are high.
Hanne Jensen Haricharan, Damian Hacking, Yan Kwan Lau, Marion Heap   +3 more
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Three phosphatase families form a community: The phosphohydrolases that act upon inositol pyrophosphates

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Inositol pyrophosphates are energy‐rich signaling molecules that perform critical functions in cells. Three different families of phosphatases hydrolyze the β phosphate of the inositol pyrophosphate molecules: two have narrow specificities and one is promiscuous.
Ronda J. Rolfes
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Implementing a Dashboard With or Without a Best Practice Alert on HLA‐B*58:01 Testing Rates Among Allopurinol Users at VA Medical Centers

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The American College of Rheumatology recommends HLA‐B*58:01 allele testing before the initiation of allopurinol, specifically among Asian and African American/Black patients, due to their increased risk for severe hypersensitivity reactions. However, testing rates remain low at many health care facilities.
Abimbola Fadairo‐Azinge, Gabriela Schmajuk, Sristi Sharma, Colleen P. Flanagan, Sara Faghihi‐Kashani, Ning Zhang, Mary A. Whooley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role of mobile health on patient enrollment for cleft lip‐palate surgery: A comparative study using SMS blast text messaging in Zimbabwe

Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2019
Background Patients' lack of awareness of available services is a significant barrier to delivering surgical care in resource‐limited settings. Short message service (SMS) text messaging is a potential means to disseminate this information in resource ...
Shekhar K. Gadkaree, Travis T. Tollefson, Jennifer C. Fuller, Faith C. Muchemwa, Aleck Gonga, David A. Shaye   +5 more
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Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro, Karen Durrant, William G. Dixon, John McBeth, Alex MacGregor, Max Yates, Jenny H. Humphreys   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Politeness Strategies Used in Text Messaging

SAGE Open, 2016
One aspect of short message service (SMS) communication through a cell phone is use of politeness strategies. As it is extensively argued that females are more polite language users, the present study sought to describe the strategies used by these two ...
Shahrzad Eshghinejad, M. Raouf Moini
doaj   +1 more source

Improving critical value notification through secure text messaging

Journal of Pathology Informatics, 2020
Background: To improve communication between clinical providers and the laboratory, we recently implemented secure text messaging for our critical value notifications.
Terrance James Lynn, Jordan Erik Olson
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