Perception of patients with alcohol use disorder and comorbid depression about the usefulness of supportive text messages

Agyapong, Vincent Israel Opoku; Milnes, Jennie; McLoughlin, Declan M.; Farren, Conor K.

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“…Further potential for cost-efficiency and continued service quality is suggested by being able to offer alternative service provision in interventions involving bidirectionality, such as the "hovering" described by Ben-Zeev et al (2014). Such potential is also suggested where participants experienced social support from unidirectional interventions (Agyapong et al, 2013;Brown et al, 2014;De Jongh et al, 2012;Rana et al, 2015). The work undertaken by Walker et al (2015) and Wollersheim et al (2013) suggests potential for cost-effective service provision by developing the self-efficacy and social capital of service users and training them to support each other may reduce reliance on other services.…”

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“…Mobile phone interventions were experienced as empowering or as challenging traditional power relations by a number of studies (Agyapong et al, 2013;Ben-Zeev et al, 2014;Brown et al, 2014;Nolan, Quinn, & MacCobb, 2011;Walker et al, 2015;Wollersheim et al, 2013). This was attributed to having more control over the intervention or being empowered to take up a particular service beyond the intervention.…”

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“…Other concerns, such as using a phone while driving, being able to report misuse or abuse of mobile phone apps or the potential for dependency on receiving regular SMS support, were found(De Jongh et al, 2012;McColl et al, 2014;Norris et al, 2013;Rana et al, 2015). Ease for participants to opt in or out of an intervention(Agyapong et al, 2013) and the need for interventions to be flexible and accommodate multiple users with different abilities(Alvarez-Jimenez et al, 2014) were noted.…”

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“…Unidirectional interventions were those where automated SMS messages (with supportive/educative themes) were sent from the service provider to the service user, with no response facility arranged. Seven papers discussed this type of intervention(Agyapong et al, 2013;Alvarez- Jimenez et al, 2014;Brown et al, 2014;Chen, Mishara, & Liu, 2010;Daker-White & Rogers, 2013;Guillory et al, 2015;Rana et al, 2015).While many such interventions were excluded from this review, these were included because social support was either intended or experienced. Bidirectional interventions (between service provider and service user but with both parties having the ability to respond or initiate contact) were described in five papers(Ben-Zeev et al, 2014;Moon, 2013;Nolan et al, 2011;Norris et al, 2013;Yoo et al, 2015), and an additional two mentioned both types(De Jongh et al, 2012;Hartzler & Wetter, 2014).Of these bidirectional papers, four(Ben-Zeev et al, 2014;Moon, 2013;Nolan et al, 2011;Yoo et al, 2015) considered the use of mobile phone technologies as enhancements to therapeutic relationships Moon (2013).…”

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Developing a typology of mobile phone usage in social care: A critical review of the literature

Saltiel

Steels

Fenney

2017

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The ways in which mobile phones have transformed the boundaries of time and space and the possibilities of communication have profoundly affected our lives. However, there is little research on the use of mobiles in social care though evidence is emerging that mobile phones can play an important role in delivering services. This paper is based on a scoping review of the international literature in this area. A typology of mobile interventions is suggested. While most mobile phone interventions remain unidirectional and sit within traditional social care service provider-service user relationships, a minority are bi-or multidirectional and contain within them the potential to transform these traditional relationships by facilitating a collective development of social networks and social capital. Such transformations are accompanied by a range of issues and dilemmas that have made many service providers reluctant to engage with new technologies. We suggest that our typology is a useful model to draw on when researching the use of mobile phones in social care to support and empower isolated, marginalised and vulnerable service users. K E Y W O R D Saccess to support, empowerment, health and social care, health and social care networks, technology | INTRODUCTION: THE RISE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIESThe mobile phone is "arguably the most rapidly diffused technological artefact in history" (Wajcman, 2008, p. 68). The most recent data suggested that over 90% of adults in the UK had a mobile although only 66% had a "smartphone"-a phone powerful enough to act as an internet-enabled pocket computer (Ofcom, 2015). In some countries, including the UK, it has been suggested that there are rates of mobile phone ownership higher than 100% (Bittman, Brown, & Wajcman, 2009). Mobile phones have collapsed boundaries between work and leisure, and between our public and our private lives. Because mo- Despite the figures cited above, there is evidence of a digital divide in the UK: the most recent data suggest that mobile phone usage ranges from 90% of 16-to 24-year olds to just 18% of those aged 65 and over (Ofcom, 2015). Similarly, while 11% of all UK adults had never used the Internet, 24% of those aged 65-74 and 61% of those aged 75 and over had never used it. About 27% of disabled people (based on self-assessment against the Equality Actdefinition) also reported never using the Internet. These data suggest that a significant minority of the population may be excluded There is now a body of research on the potential for mobile phone technology to improve preventative care and illness management in health-related fields, but much less on the use of mobiles in social work and social care and very little on the perspectives of service users, how the service provider/service user relationship might be altered, or the practice implications for professional social workers and third sector volunteers. | Background and research questionThe genesis of this paper was a study undertaken by a Social Work MA student, supervised by one of t...

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Saltiel

Steels

Fenney

2017

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“…The use of technology, particularly cell phone-based interventions, appears to be effective at promoting rehabilitation in recovery programs (Hailey, Roine, Ohinmaa, & Dennett, 2011). Patients report being receptive to these technology-driven interventions and a one year follow-up study showed increased adherence and lower addiction related problems for buprenorphine patients participating in a phone-based patient support program (Agyapong, Milnes, McLoughlin, & Farren, 2013;Dennison, Morrison, Conway, & Yardley, 2013;Muench, Weiss, Kuerbis, & Morgenstern, 2013;Ruetsch, Tkacz, McPherson, & Cacciola, 2012). With data showing 91% of patients in substance abuse treatment reporting access to cell phones and 79% with access to text messaging, technology driven interventions for addiction treatment have a large cohort of potential recipients (McClure, Acquavita, Harding, & Stitzer, 2013) (Table 1).…”

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Technology-Assisted Addiction Treatment for Key Populations

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Lubran²,

Clark³

2014

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Innovations in health information technology have resulted in patient-centered and providercentered applications that can enhance access to care and treatment and retention in care. Provider-based applications in addiction treatment include the use of electronic medical records, electronic computer-based medication dispensing, and state prescription monitoring plans as well as new drug formulations and novel drug therapies in development. Patient-based applications include technology-based delivery of psychosocial interventions, as well as, cellphone-based messaging and applications. For key populations, men who have sex with men, sex workers, injection drug users and transgendered individuals, application of these technological innovations could enhance treatment outcomes for substance use disorders. Thus, as these technology innovations advance attention to their development for key populations would assist the global efforts to enhance addiction treatment.

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Mobile technology-based interventions for adult users of alcohol: A systematic review of the literature

Fowler

Holt

Joshi

2016

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Perception of patients with alcohol use disorder and comorbid depression about the usefulness of supportive text messages

Cited by 82 publications

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Developing a typology of mobile phone usage in social care: A critical review of the literature

Developing a typology of mobile phone usage in social care: A critical review of the literature

Technology-Assisted Addiction Treatment for Key Populations

Mobile technology-based interventions for adult users of alcohol: A systematic review of the literature

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