Text messaging interventions increase adherence to antiretroviral therapy and smoking cessation

Communication technologies have radically changed how individuals access health information and communicate, and this generates a need to examine the effectiveness of mobile technology-based interventions delivered to healthcare consumers for health behaviour change and also for the management of di...

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Published inBMJ evidence-based medicine Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 35 - 36
Main Author Blake, Holly
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.02.2014
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Bias
Biomedical Technology - methods
Community Participation
Cost analysis
Delivery of Health Care
Disease Management
Drug therapy
Health Behavior
Health promotion
Humans
Intervention
Portable computers
Telemedicine - methods
Text messaging
Public Health
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Summary:Communication technologies have radically changed how individuals access health information and communicate, and this generates a need to examine the effectiveness of mobile technology-based interventions delivered to healthcare consumers for health behaviour change and also for the management of diseases. Risk ratios and standard mean differences were calculated, and the authors used random effects meta-analysis to give pooled estimates when there were two or more trials using the same technology function (eg, short message service (SMS)) and targeting the same disease (eg, diabetes control) or behaviour (eg, physical activity) and reporting the same outcome.
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ISSN:1356-5524
2515-446X
1473-6810
2515-4478
DOI:10.1136/eb-2013-101359