This study aims to explore the perception of nurses on the use of mobile phone SMS for managing diabetes in rural Ghana....
Exploratory Descriptive Qualitative Design....
Purposive sampling was used to recruit (13) participants relative to data saturation after ethical clearance (REDACTED); using a semi-structured interview guide. All interviews were transcribed verbat...
Participants believe SMS was useful in facilitating interaction between nurses, clients, family and statistically significant others; improving medication adherence and supporting blood glucose monito...
Thirteen nurses actively participated in the study....
COVID-19 vaccine uptake among urban populations remains low....
To evaluate whether text messaging with outbound or inbound scheduling and behaviorally informed content might increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake....
This randomized clinical trial with a factorial design was conducted from April 29 to July 6, 2021, in an urban academic health system. The trial comprised 16 045 patients at least 18 years of age in ...
Eligible patients were randomly assigned in a 1:20:20 ratio to (1) outbound telephone call only by call center, (2) text message and outbound telephone call by call center to those who respond, or (3)...
The primary outcome was the proportion of patients who completed the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within 1 month, according to the electronic health record. Secondary outcomes were the completio...
Among the 16 045 patients included, the mean (SD) age was 36.9 (11.1) years; 9418 (58.7%) were women; 12 869 (80.2%) had commercial insurance, and 2283 (14.2%) were insured by Medicaid; 8345 (52.0%) w...
There was no detectable increase in vaccination uptake among patients receiving text messaging compared with telephone calls only or behaviorally informed message content....
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04834726....
Text messages are a feasible delivery channel for breastfeeding promotion, but only a few articles have examined their effectiveness....
To evaluate the impact of mobile phone text messages on breastfeeding practices....
We implemented a 2-arm, parallel, individually randomized controlled trial with 353 pregnant participants at the Central Women's Hospital, Yangon. The intervention group (n = 179) received breastfeedi...
Exclusive breastfeeding prevalence was significantly higher in the intervention than in the control group for the 6 follow-up visits combined (RR: 1.48; 95%CI: 1.35, 1.63; P < 0.001) and at each month...
Regular, targeted text messages delivered to urban pregnant women and mothers via mobile phones significantly improve breastfeeding practices and reduce infant morbidity during the first 6 mo of life....
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12615000063516; https://anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=367704....
Despite improvements in health outcomes for children, early childhood dental caries (ECC) remains a chronic lifestyle-mediated disease that affects an estimated 600 million children worldwide. Parenta...
A randomised controlled trial with a 1:1 parallel design will be conducted among 150 parents with children diagnosed with ECC and accessing public dental care in NSW, Australia. Patients will be strat...
Ethics approval has been obtained from the Western Sydney Local Health District Human Research Ethics Committee 2022/ETH01920. Study results will be disseminated via peer-reviewed publications and pre...
Trial registration number: This clinical trial has been prospectively registered on the ANZCTR from the 27th of March 2023. Registration number: ACTRN12623000325606....
Given the role of malnutrition in childhood morbidity and mortality, the prioritisation of maternal and child nutrition programmes has grown significantly in the 21st century. Policies and programmes ...
Smoking is an important risk factor of coronary artery stenosis after angioplasty. Therefore, this investigation aimed to determine the effectiveness of a motivational text-messaging program for smoki...
Success in quitting cigarette smoking was significantly higher in the intervention group (n = 29, 61.7%) compared to the control group (n = 2, 4.3%) (p < 0.001). Moreover, after the intervention, the ...
Although the effectiveness of using text messages in home-based rehabilitation programs has been investigated, its ability to engage patients in home rehabilitation exercises and, as a result, improve...
In this 2-arm parallel randomized controlled trial, 40 patients were randomly assigned to either the intervention group (usual care plus the support program) or the control group (usual care only). In...
The study was completed by 90% (36 of 40) of the patients who were enrolled. There were statistically significant differences between the 2 groups with respect to Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Should...
The text message-based program was associated with improved outcomes over the first 12 weeks after flexor tendon repair....
Therapeutic II....
Successful smoking cessation strategies are an important part of reducing tobacco use. However, providing universal smoking cessation support can be a challenge for most countries because it requires ...
To assess the efficacy of a behavior change theory-based smoking cessation intervention using personalized text messages....
This study was a 2-arm double-blind randomized clinical trial conducted in 5 cities in China. Daily or weekly smokers 18 years or older were eligible for inclusion if they owned a mobile phone and use...
Intervention group participants received a personalized text message-based smoking cessation intervention that was based on the transtheoretical model and protection motivation theory and developed by...
The primary outcome was the biochemically verified 6-month sustained abstinence rate, defined as the self-report of no smoking of any cigarettes after the designated quit date, which was validated bio...
A total of 722 participants (mean [SD] age, 41.5 [12.7] years; 716 men [99.2%]; all of Chinese ethnicity) were randomly assigned to the intervention group (360 participants) or the control group (362 ...
In this study, the behavior change theory-based smoking cessation intervention using personalized text messages was more effective than an intervention using nonpersonalized text messages. The interve...
Chinese Clinical Trial Registry Identifier: ChiCTR2100041942....
Digital interventions hold promise for improving physical activity in adolescents. However, a lack of empirical decision points (eg, timing of intervention prompts) is an evidence gap in the optimizat...
The study examined the feasibility and acceptability, as well as the technical and functional reliability, of and participant engagement with a digital intervention that aligned its decision points to...
Ten adolescents completed a 7-day baseline monitoring period and Temporally Augmented Goal Setting (TAGS), a 20-day digital physical activity intervention that included a midday self-monitoring messag...
The TAGS intervention was mostly feasible, acceptable, and technically and functionally reliable. Adolescents showed adequate levels of engagement. Preintervention to intervention changes in MVPA were...
TAGS shows promise for future trials with additional refinements given its feasibility, acceptability, technical and functional reliability, participants' rates of engagement, and the relative MVPA im...
To assess the impact of a text-messaging intervention on smoking cessation among patients with non-communicable diseases....
A total of 200 participants were randomly assigned to either a text-messaging intervention group or a control group. The 7-day point prevalence of smoking cessation and exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) le...
The 7-day point prevalence of smoking cessation increased by 16.16% (95% CI: 10.98, 21.33) at the 6-week follow-up and by 15.46% (95% CI: 10.68, 21.33) at the 18-week follow-up. In the intervention gr...
The text-messaging intervention proved effective in increasing the prevalence of smoking cessation and reducing carbon monoxide levels among non-communicable disease patients....
