Identifying digital markers of sleep disturbance-a known suicide risk factor-may aid in the detection of imminent suicide risk. This study examined sleep-related communication and texting patterns in ...
Twenty-six participants provided dates of past suicide attempts and 2-week periods of positive mood, depressed mood, or suicidal ideation. Linguistic Inquiry Word Count was used to identify sleep-rela...
Analyses with a sleep dictionary that was manually revised to be more accurate (but not the original unedited dictionary) showed sleep-related communication was more likely during depressed mood episo...
Although we did not detect differences in sleep-related communication tied to suicidal thoughts or behaviors, sleep-related communication may differ as a function of within-person mood level....
The BOOST (Booster promotion for older outpatients using SMS text reminders) program at Taipei Veterans General Hospital assessed the effectiveness of text message reminders in enhancing COVID-19 boos...
Workplace health promotion programs (WHPPs) can improve shift workers' physical activity. The purpose of this paper is to present the process evaluation of a text messaging health promotion interventi...
To evaluate whether a postpartum text message-based communication platform improves breastfeeding rates....
In a randomized controlled trial, a control group receiving weekly text messages inquiring about infant feeding method was compared with an intervention group receiving educational text messages and p...
From January 2020 to January 2021, 300 patients were enrolled and 216 were randomized as follows: 110 to control and 106 to intervention. In the cohort, 52.8% were Black, 45.4% had public insurance, a...
A text message-based communication platform was not associated with breastfeeding exclusivity at 6 weeks postpartum compared with usual care....
ClinicalTrials.gov , NCT04108533....
Controlling blood pressure minimizes the risk of cardiovascular events among patients with hypertension. Despite regular follow-ups, the hypertension management for patients aged ≥45 years is limited ...
Sixty-nine patients with hypertension aged ≥45 years and having high blood pressure (>130/80 mmHg) were recruited in this two-arm pilot randomized controlled trial. Participants in the intervention gr...
The results obtained using the generalized estimating equation revealed that the educational program led to reduction in the systolic blood pressure (β = -7.12, p = .086) and pulse pressure (β = -8.20...
The educational program was found to be feasible and acceptable and may be incorporated into current hypertension management practices at the community level....
ClinicalTrials.gov with identifier: NCT04565548....
Language patterns may elucidate mechanisms of mental health conditions. To inform underlying theory and risk models, we evaluated prospective associations between in vivo text messaging language and d...
Over 16 weeks, we collected outgoing text messages from 335 adults. Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), NRC Emotion Lexicon, and previously established depression and stress dictionaries, ...
We found significant relationships of language features, including personal pronouns, negative emotion, cognitive and biological processes, and informal language, with common mental health conditions,...
Language that confers both common (e.g., personal pronouns and negative emotion) and specific (e.g., affiliation, anticipation, trust, and anger) risk for affective disorders is perceptible in prior w...
The use of short message service (SMS) text messaging technology has grown in popularity over the last twenty years, but there is limited data on the design and feasibility of campaigns to reduce work...
Public safety personnel experience various mental health conditions due to their work's complex and demanding nature. There are barriers to seeking support and treatment; hence, providing innovative a...
The study aimed to evaluate the impact of Text4PTSI on depression, anxiety, trauma, and stress-related symptoms, and the resilience of public safety personnel after six months of providing supportive ...
Public safety personnel subscribed to Text4PTSI and received daily supportive and psychoeducational SMS text messages for six months. Participants were invited to complete standardized self-rated web-...
One hundred and thirty-one subscribers participated in the Text4PTSI program, and eighteen completed both the baseline and any follow-up survey. A total of 31 participants completed the baseline surve...
The results of this study suggest a significant reduction in the prevalence of likely MDD as well as the severity of anxiety symptoms from baseline to post-intervention for subscribers of the Text4PTS...
To investigate the acceptability of a text message intervention and evaluate if text messages could increase knowledge of cervical cancer and screening....
This study was a substudy of a randomised controlled trial that used a mixed methods research design combining a quantitative questionnaire dataset and qualitative interview data. A before and after a...
Ocean Road Cancer Institute in Dar es Salaam as well as Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center and Mawenzi Regional hospital in the Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania....
Human papillomavirus (HPV) positive women who had been randomised to the intervention group and received educative and reminder messages. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a subgroup of women...
15 one-way educative and reminder text messages....
A total of 115 women in the intervention group responded to both the baseline and follow-up questionnaire. Overall, women found it highly acceptable to receive text messages, and there was a trend tow...
Educative and reminder text messages are highly acceptable among HPV-positive Tanzanian women; however, they do not increase the women's knowledge of cervical cancer and screening....
clingov (NCT02509702)....