Trial reportThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2017
Texting to Increase Contraceptive Initiation Among Adolescents in the Emergency Department.
Trial report in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mobile phone-based interventions for improving contraception use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Telehealth for Women's Preventive Services for Reproductive Health and Intimate Partner Violence: a Comparative Effectiveness Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Developing Culturally Tailored mHealth Tools to Address Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Black and Latina Women: A Systematic Review.Health promotion practice · 2022Pooled it
- mHealth Interventions for Contraceptive Behavior Change in the United States: A Systematic Review.Journal of health communication · 2022Pooled it
- Targeted client communication via mobile devices for improving sexual and reproductive health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Telehealth Interventions to Improve Obstetric and Gynecologic Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2020Pooled it
- Feasibility of adolescent contraceptive care in the pediatric emergency department: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2024Trial
- A multi-media digital intervention to improve the sexual and reproductive health of female adolescent emergency department patients.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2022Trial
- Brief Motivational Intervention to Improve Adolescent Sexual Health Service Uptake: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial in the Emergency Department.The Journal of pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Inclusion of underserved young people in digital public health interventions for mental health, sexual health and substance use: A systematic review and intervention component analysis.Internet interventions · 2026Review
- Acceptability and Use of Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Chatbots for Sexual and Reproductive Health Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women of Color in the United States: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Adolescent Mental Health, Contraceptive Knowledge, and Teen Pregnancy Risk: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Beyond the emergency department: the use of mobile health discharge interventions-a scoping review.CJEM · 2025Article
- The behavioural and cognitive impacts of digital educational interventions in the emergency department: A systematic review.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of Telehealth in Obstetric and Gynecologic Care: A Systematic Review of Health Outcomes.Cureus · 2024Review
- A Digital Sexual Health Intervention for Urban Adolescent and Young Adult Male Emergency Department Patients: User-Centered Design Approach.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- A User-Informed, Theory-Based Pregnancy Prevention Intervention for Adolescents in the Emergency Department: A Prospective Cohort Study.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2021Article
- Telemedicine for Family Planning: A Scoping Review.Obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America · 2020Article
- A Mobile Phone-Based Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention for Female Sex Workers in Kenya: Development and Qualitative Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
- Best practices for collecting repeated measures data using text messages.BMC medical research methodology · 2020Review
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Abstract
purposeTo evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a text messaging intervention to increase contraception among adolescent emergency department patients.
methodsA pilot randomized controlled trial of sexually active females aged 14-19 receiving 3 months of theory-based, unidirectional educational and motivational texts providing reproductive health information versus standardized discharge instructions. Blinded assessors measured contraception initiation via telephone follow-up and health record review at 3 months.
resultsWe randomized 100 eligible participants (predominantly aged 18-19, Hispanic, and with a primary provider); 88.0% had follow-up. In the intervention arm, 3/50 (6.0%) participants opted out, and 1,172/1,654 (70.9%) texts were successfully delivered; over 90% of message failures were from one mobile carrier. Most (36/41; 87.7%) in the intervention group liked and wanted future reproductive health messages. Contraception was initiated in 6/50 (12.0%) in the intervention arm and in 11/49 (22.4%) in the control arm.
conclusionsA pregnancy prevention texting intervention was feasible and acceptable among adolescent females in the emergency department setting.
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