The impact of short message service text messages sent as appointment reminders to patients’ cell phones at outpatient clinics in São Paulo, Brazil

Costa, Thiago Martini da; Salomão, Paulo Lísias; Martha, Amilton Souza; Pisa, Ivan Torres; Sigulem, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.09.001

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“…Moreover, even people who did not meet our strict definition of regular care still attended the majority of their scheduled clinic appointments and maintained consistent contact with program staff through email, SMS texting or attendance at weekly support group meetings. Text messaging and other innovative technologies have been used successfully to increase clinic attendance, 38,39 improve medication adherence, 40 assist adults and adolescents with chronic disease management, 41,42 and promote healthy behaviors such as diet, exercise and smoking cessation. [43][44][45] Future research should evaluate the use of mobile phone and Internet-based interventions such as adherence counseling, and the ability to schedule walk-in appointments online as a way to maintain greater communication and connection between youth and their HIV care providers.…”

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Keeping Them in “STYLE”: Finding, Linking, and Retaining Young HIV-Positive Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men in Care

Hightow-Weidman

Smith

Valera

et al. 2011

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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Young men who have sex with men (YMSM) of color are at particularly increased risk for HIV infection compared to white MSM. National data highlight the need to link YMSM of color to care to improve their overall health and stem further infections, yet, there is limited data on interventions and clinical outcomes focused on engaging and retaining youth, specifically HIV-infected YMSM of color in care. To address the medical care needs of this underserved population, in 2005, the Health Research and Services Administration (HRSA) created the YMSM of Color Initiative. Utilizing a social marketing campaign targeting youth and members of their sexual and social networks, testing and outreach on college campuses and within the broader community, and a tightly linked medical-social support network, we created STYLE (Strength Through Youth Livin' Empowered), a novel intervention that sought to diagnose, engage, and retain HIV-positive black and Latino YMSM in HIV primary care services. Over a 3-year period, 81 men were either newly diagnosed or reengaged in care. Overall, 63% of the cohort was retained in clinical care; defined as attending at least one medical visit every 4 months. Compared to the 3 years prior to STYLE, the odds ratio for whether or not someone attended a clinic visit was 2.58 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.34-4.98) if enrolled in STYLE. We conclude that compared to a pre-STYLE cohort, STYLE was an effective intervention that increased HIV diagnoses, provided efficient and timely engagement in care for both those newly diagnosed and those who had fallen out of care and improved overall retention.

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Keeping Them in “STYLE”: Finding, Linking, and Retaining Young HIV-Positive Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men in Care

Hightow-Weidman

Smith

Valera

et al. 2011

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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“…It is in this respect that mobile applications are growingly being adapted for, inter alia: clinical appointments (Da Costa et al, 2010); enhanced observation and treatment of patients with tuberculosis (Hoffman et al, 2010) and better tailored feedbacks by means of enhanced self-monitoring (Bauer et al, 2010). The position that rural communities have been the greatest beneficiaries of health-related mobile applications by Kliner et al (2013) has been confirmed by Kirui et al (2013) ' (p. 141).…”

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Comparative human development thresholds for absolute and relative pro-poor mobile banking in developing countries

Asongu

Nwachukwu

2018

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“…There is evidence that using text messages can support smoking cessation (Free et al, 2011), remind general medical patients of scheduled medical appointments (da Costa et al, 2010), and improve compliance with medication (Strandbygaard, Thomsen, & Backer, 2010). Currently, several smartphone applications are available for improvement of mental health problems, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (Elias, Fogger, McGuinness, & D'Alessandro, 2014).…”

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“…In a review of text messaging used for behavioral interventions, Wei, Hollin, and Kachnowski (2011) found that, among 16 randomized controlled trials, 10 reported significant improvement with the interventions and six reported differences, suggesting positive trends. Mobile phone technologies offer the possibility of managing noncritical care within the community, thus improving patients' quality of life and controlling costs (da Costa, Salomão, Martha, Pisa, & Sigulem, 2010). Therefore, the current study focused on suicide interventions sent via mobile phone text messaging technologies.…”

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Text Messaging for Psychiatric Outpatients: Effect on Help-Seeking and Self-Harming Behaviors

Kodama¹,

Syouji²,

Takaki³

et al. 2016

J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv

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A mobile phone intervention was developed and tested with 30 psychiatric outpatients with mental illness, who had high ideation for suicide. The intervention involved promoting helpseeking behaviors by sending text messages, including information about social welfare services and reminders about medical appointments, for 6 months. After the intervention period, the number of participants who used social services significantly increased, and more than 80% of participants reported that the text messaging service was helpful and useful. Compared to baseline, participants' self-harming behaviors decreased and the attending psychiatrists rated their suicide ideation as weaker. This is the first intervention study to promote psychiatric patients' help-seeking using text messaging, and although it was not a randomized controlled trial, this intervention has practical value and may lead to the prevention of suicide.

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The impact of short message service text messages sent as appointment reminders to patients’ cell phones at outpatient clinics in São Paulo, Brazil

Cited by 127 publications

References 10 publications

Keeping Them in “STYLE”: Finding, Linking, and Retaining Young HIV-Positive Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men in Care

Keeping Them in “STYLE”: Finding, Linking, and Retaining Young HIV-Positive Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men in Care

Comparative human development thresholds for absolute and relative pro-poor mobile banking in developing countries

Text Messaging for Psychiatric Outpatients: Effect on Help-Seeking and Self-Harming Behaviors

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