Mobile Text Messaging for Health: A Systematic Review of Reviews

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Striking the right balance: co-designing the Health4Me healthy lifestyle digital health intervention with adolescents

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An exploratory study of mobile messaging preferences by age: Middle-aged and older adults compared to younger adults

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Using the Preparation Phase of the Multiphase Optimization Strategy to Develop a Messaging Component for Weight Loss: Formative and Pilot Research

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Text Messaging in Cancer-Supportive Care: A Systematic Review

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Process evaluation of a brief messaging intervention to improve diabetes treatment adherence in sub-Saharan Africa

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Feasibility and acceptability of novel methods to estimate antiretroviral adherence: A longitudinal study

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Bilingual Text4Walking Food Service Employee Intervention Pilot Study

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Predictors of Retention in an Adult Text Messaging Smoking Cessation Intervention Program: Cohort Study

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A quasi-experimental text messaging trial to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health and smoking knowledge in Indonesia.

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Preliminary Efficacy of a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Text Messaging Intervention Targeting Alcohol Use and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence: A Randomized Clinical Trial

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Correction: Optimizing Text Messages to Promote Engagement With Internet Smoking Cessation Treatment: Results From a Factorial Screening Experiment

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Systematic review and meta-analysis of text messaging interventions to support tobacco cessation

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Era of Generalist Conversational Artificial Intelligence to Support Public Health Communications

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A Qualitative Scoping Review of the Impacts of Economic Recessions on Mental Health: Implications for Practice and Policy

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How Digital Health is Revolutionizing Healthcare and Contributing to Positive Health Outcomes

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Efficacy of digital interventions on physical activity promotion in individuals with noncommunicable diseases: an overview of systematic reviews

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Real Time Monitoring of Engagement with a Text Message Intervention to Reduce Binge Drinking Among Men Living in Socially Disadvantaged Areas of Scotland

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Texting 4 Sexual Health: Improving Attitudes, Intention, and Behavior Among American Indian and Alaska Native Youth

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Use of text messages to increase positive affect and promote physical activity in patients with heart disease

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Effect of lifestyle focused text messaging on risk factor modification in patients with diabetes and coronary heart disease: A sub-analysis of the TEXT ME study

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Effectiveness of text messages for decreasing inactive behaviour in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a pilot randomised controlled study

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A Culturally Relevant Smartphone-Delivered Physical Activity Intervention for African American Women: Development and Initial Usability Tests of Smart Walk

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Achieving Effective and Efficient Basal Insulin Optimal Management by Using Mobile Health Application (APP) for Type 2 Diabetes Patients in China

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Culturally Safe eHealth Interventions With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Protocol for a Best Practice Framework

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Promoting Youth Mental Health via Text‐Messages: A New Zealand Feasibility Study

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Short message services interventions for chronic disease management: A systematic review

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Preventing relapse with personalized smart‐messaging after cognitive behavioural therapy: A proof‐of‐concept evaluation

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The effects of short messages encouraging prevention behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic

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The Intervention Effect of SMS Delivery on Chinese Adolescent’s Physical Activity

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Text Messaging as a Screening Tool for Depression and Related Conditions in Underserved, Predominantly Minority Safety Net Primary Care Patients: Validity Study

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Text Messaging to Improve Disease Management in Patients With Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

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Optimum Care of AKI Survivors Not Requiring Dialysis after Discharge: An AKINow Recovery Workgroup Report

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Un intervento di messaggistica istantanea per la promozione del monitoraggio del consumo di frutta e verdura

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Fathers Raising Children on the Autism Spectrum: Lower Stress and Higher Self-Efficacy Following SMS (Text2dads) Intervention

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A randomized pilot trial of a mobile phone–based brief intervention with personalized feedback and interactive text messaging to reduce driving after cannabis use and riding with a cannabis impaired driver

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Using Mobile Phones to Collect Patient Data: Lessons Learned From the SIMPle Study

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mHealth prompts within diabetes prevention programs: a scoping review

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Can mHealth campaigns improve CCT outcomes? Experimental evidence from sms-nudges in Indonesia

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Mobile Phone-Based Nutrition Education Targeting Pregnant and Nursing Mothers in Sri Lanka

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Keeping Active with Texting after Stroke (KATS): development of a text message intervention to promote physical activity and exercise after stroke

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Virtual Tools to Enable Management of Knee Osteoarthritis

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