Enhancing self‐care, adjustment and engagement through mobile phones in youth with HIV.

Abstract

Mobile phones enhance self-care, psychological adjustment and engagement in non-disclosed youth living with HIV, and can be used to increase care coverage. Findings underline the importance of policies to increase access by locating, counselling and engaging HIV-infected youth in care.

Do digital innovations for HIV and sexually transmitted infections work? Results from a systematic review (1996-2017)

“…An online campaign with SMS services increased CT, GC and HIV tests uptake by 41%, 91% and 190%, respectively 123 ; an interactive website with SMS reminders improved ART adherence in drug users (n=20; p=0.02) 121 ; a social media-based partner notification with SMS increased notified contacts by 144% (63.5% in 2011 from baseline 26% in 2010) 126 ; and a mobile app with SMS significantly improved self-care performance in HIV-infected individuals compared with baseline (n=19; p=0.002). 129 …”

Exploring the role of nurses in after-hours telephone services in regional areas; A scoping review

“…As shown in the data summary table, this included four literature reviews [19][20][21][22], and one Cochrane review [23]. The quantitative studies ranged from randomised controlled trials and interventions [24,25] to, pre and post-test interventions [26][27][28] to cross sectional and longitudinal studies [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] to studies that employed surveys and questionnaires [37,38] and analysis of case records [39,40]. There were three mixed method studies [41][42][43] that drew on existing call centre data and interviews, as well as six qualitative studies.…”

“…Although nurses may provide expert advice, in developing countries, for example, services were used as a support tool for village health workers in their day to day care of patients and it was the health worker who was in contact with distant experts [26,27,34,38]. Within developed countries telephone services providing one-off health care advice to patients are usually staffed by experienced registered nurses [23,52], although some are staffed by doctors, or provide a direct referral to a medical specialist [23,33,37,40,45].…”

“…A small number of studies within the USA context and other fee-for service systems, noted that factors to do with the patient's socioeconomic status influenced what care plan the nurse recommended highlighting inequity in service provision [25,37]. Satisfaction also depends on speciality, with John et al [27] reporting low levels of satisfaction with nurse-led phone advice for paediatric care.…”

“…These authors also noted that health literacy was an important aspect in relation to the effectiveness of telephone support, and that in the cases of chronic conditions, regular contact by nurses should be planned to improve outcomes. John et al [27] found that younger patients preferred counselling contact through text technology and see it as more convenient and easier to accept than person to person advice. They also valued the privacy and lack of personal contact.…”