Trial reportJournal of medical Internet research2014
A comparison between phone-based psychotherapy with and without text messaging support in between sessions for crisis patients.
Trial report in Journal of medical Internet research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02843022 (Enhancing Follow-up Mechanisms for Women at Risk for Postpartum Depression), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Enhancing Follow-up Mechanisms for Women at Risk for Postpartum Depression
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Fundamentals for Future Mobile-Health (mHealth): A Systematic Review of Mobile Phone and Web-Based Text Messaging in Mental Health.Journal of medical Internet research · 2016Pooled it
- Randomized controlled pilot trial of supportive text messages for patients with depression.BMC psychiatry · 2017Trial
- Automated Text Messaging as an Adjunct to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: A Clinical Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Trial
- Application of a Sociotechnical Framework to Uncover Factors That Influence Effective User Engagement With Digital Mental Health Tools in Clinical Care Contexts: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- The Use of Text Messaging as an Adjunct to Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder in Youth: Secondary Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Interventions for improving adherence to psychological treatments for common mental disorders: a systematic review.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Review
- Examining clinician choice to follow-up (or not) on automated notifications of medication non-adherence by clinical decision support systems.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Article
- A pilot study on the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a brief text message intervention for co-occurring alcohol misuse and PTSD symptoms in a community sample.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2022Article
- Awareness, Acceptability, and Perceived Effectiveness of Text-Based Therapy Among Graduate Students: Cross-sectional Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Article
- Involving Crowdworkers with Lived Experience in Content-Development for Push-Based Digital Mental Health Tools: Lessons Learned from Crowdsourcing Mental Health Messages.Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction · 2022Article
- Improving social functioning in people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders via mobile experimental interventions: Results from the CLIMB pilot trial.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2021Article
- Effectiveness of a Multimodal Digital Psychotherapy Platform for Adult Depression: A Naturalistic Feasibility Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Article
- mHealth Application Areas and Technology Combinations*. A Comparison of Literature from High and Low/Middle Income Countries.Methods of information in medicine · 2017Article
- Supporting Homework Compliance in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Essential Features of Mobile Apps.JMIR mental health · 2017Article
- Perspectives on the Use of eHealth in the Management of Patients With Schizophrenia.The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2016Article
- Identifying Chinese Microblog Users With High Suicide Probability Using Internet-Based Profile and Linguistic Features: Classification Model.JMIR mental healthArticle
- Feasibility and Perception of Using Text Messages as an Adjunct Therapy for Low-Income, Minority Mothers With Postpartum Depression.JMIR mental healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundFew studies have tested whether individually tailored text messaging interventions have an effect on clinical outcomes when used to supplement traditional psychotherapy. This is despite the potential to improve outcomes through symptom monitoring, prompts for between-session activities, and psychoeducation.
objectiveThe intent of the study was to explore the use of individually tailored between-session text messaging, or short message service (SMS), as an adjunct to telephone-based psychotherapy for consumers who present to the Emergency Department (ED) in situational and/or emotional crises.
methodsOver a 4-month period, two therapists offered 68 prospective consumers of a telephone-based psychotherapy service individually tailored between-session text messaging alongside their telephone-based psychotherapy. Attendance and clinical outcomes (depression, anxiety, functional impairment) of those receiving messages were compared against a historical control group (n=157) who received telephone psychotherapy only.
resultsA total of 66% (45/68) of the consumers offered SMS accepted the intervention. A total of 432 messages were sent over the course of the trial, the majority involving some kind of psychoeducation or reminders to engage in therapy goals. There were no significant differences in clinical outcomes between consumers who received the SMS and those in the control group. There was a trend for participants in the intervention group to attend fewer sessions than those in the control group (mean 3.7, SD 1.9 vs mean 4.4, SD 2.3).
conclusionsBoth groups showed significant improvement over time. Individually tailored SMS were not found to improve clinical outcomes in consumers receiving telephone-based psychotherapy, but the study was underpowered, given the effect sizes noted and the significance level chosen. Given the ease of implementation and positive feedback from therapists and clients, individually tailored text messages should be explored further in future trials with a focus on enhancing the clinical impact of the tailored text messages, and utilizing designs with additional power to test for between-group effects.
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