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Text Messaging Data Collection for Monitoring an Infant Feeding Intervention Program in Rural China: Feasibility Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2013
BackgroundAn effective data collection method is crucial for high quality monitoring of health interventions. The traditional face-to-face data collection method is labor intensive, expensive, and time consuming.
Li, Ye, Wang, Wei, van Velthoven, Michelle Helena, Chen, Li, Car, Josip, Rudan, Igor, Zhang, Yanfeng, Wu, Qiong, Du, Xiaozhen, Scherpbier, Robert W   +9 more
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Text Messaging-Based Interventions for Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2016
BackgroundTobacco use is one of the leading preventable global health problems producing nearly 6 million smoking-related deaths per year. Interventions delivered via text messaging (short message service, SMS) may increase access to educational and ...
Scott-Sheldon, Lori A. J, Lantini, Ryan, Jennings, Ernestine G, Thind, Herpreet, Rosen, Rochelle K, Salmoirago-Blotcher, Elena, Bock, Beth C   +6 more
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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
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Comparing Reminders Sent via SMS Text Messaging and Email for Improving Adherence to an Electronic Health Program: Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2022
BackgroundeHealth interventions can help people change behavior (eg, quit smoking). Reminders sent via SMS text messaging or email may improve the adherence to web-based programs and increase the probability of successful behavior
Adam Kulhánek, Katerina Lukavska, Roman Gabrhelík, Daniel Novák, Václav Burda, Jindřich Prokop, Marianne T S Holter, Håvar Brendryen   +7 more
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Text messaging (SMS) and libraries

, 2009
Purpose With mobile phones now becoming an almost ubiquitous technology the time seems ripe for libraries to take advantage of this maturing technology, in particular text messaging (SMS) which is available to almost all mobile phone users.
Walsh, Andrew
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Improving health worker adherence to malaria treatment guidelines in papua new Guinea : feasibility and acceptability of a text message reminder service [PDF]

, 2013
The aim of this study is to assess whether a text message reminder service designed to support health worker adherence to a revised malaria treatment protocol is feasible and acceptable in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Kurumop, Serah F., Betuela Inoni, Justin Pulford, Manuel W Hetzel, Kurumop Serah F., Betuela, Inoni, Whittaker Robyn, Pulford Justin, Inoni Betuela, Whittaker, Robyn, Serah F Kurumop, Robyn Whittaker, Bullen, Chris, Hetzel, Manuel W., Pulford, Justin, Chris Bullen, Hetzel Manuel W., Bullen Chris   +17 more
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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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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