ArticleCurrent opinion in psychology2016
Text Message Behavioral Interventions: From Here to Where?
Article in Current opinion in psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Cluster randomized multilevel intervention for promoting physical activity in rural communities.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Desire to get drunk partially mediates effects of a combined text message-based alcohol intervention for young adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Trial
- Effectiveness of text message interventions with different behavior change techniques on alcohol consumption among young adults: a five-arm randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Trial
- Effectiveness of a Text Message Intervention Promoting Seat Belt Use Among Young Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Text messaging interventions to support smoking cessation among hospitalized patients in Brazil: a randomized comparative effectiveness clinical trial.BMC research notes · 2022Trial
- A Mobile Phone-Based Life-Skills Training Program for Substance Use Prevention Among Adolescents: Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2021Trial
- User Engagement Among Diverse Adults in a 12-Month Text Message-Delivered Diabetes Support Intervention: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Trial
- A text message intervention to reduce 21st birthday alcohol consumption: Evaluation of a two-group randomized controlled trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Trial
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- A Proposed mHealth Intervention to Address Patient Barriers to Colposcopy Attendance: Qualitative Interview Study of Clinic Staff and Patient Perspectives.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Deceptively Simple yet Profoundly Impactful: Text Messaging Interventions to Support Health.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Review
- Exploring user experiences of a text message-delivered intervention among individuals on opioid use disorder treatment in Kenya: A qualitative study.PLOS digital health · 2023Article
- Keeping Active with Texting after Stroke (KATS): development of a text message intervention to promote physical activity and exercise after stroke.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
- Mobile App-Based Coaching for Alcohol Prevention among Adolescents: Pre-Post Study on the Acceptance and Effectiveness of the Program "MobileCoach Alcohol".International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Analysis of Patient Cues in Asynchronous Health Interactions: Pilot Study Combining Empathy Appraisal and Systemic Functional Linguistics.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
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- A Tailored SMS Text Message-Based Intervention to Facilitate Patient Access to Referred Community-Based Social Needs Resources: Protocol for a Pilot Feasibility and Acceptability Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- 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
- Implementing a text-messaging intervention for unhealthy alcohol use in emergency departments: protocol for implementation strategy development and a pilot cluster randomized implementation trial.Implementation science communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Text messaging is an efficient and personal electronic form of communication, making it an ideal modality for remote delivery of behavioral interventions. The ubiquity of cell phones and short message service (SMS) worldwide allow the possibility of SMS behavioral inteventions to impact global health. Studies to date suggest that SMS interventions can effectively support health behaviors and may offer advantages compared to other forms of computerized interventions. Program features optimizing user engagament and persuasiveness are suggested to mediate SMS intervention effect. Future research is tasked with identifying what SMS features are useful to which individuals at what times to best help them initiate and maintain health behaviors.
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