Content guidance for mobile phones short message service (SMS)-based antiretroviral therapy adherence and appointment reminders
A review of the literature
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Mobile phones are increasingly being used to support health activities, including the care and management of people living with HIV/AIDS. Short message service (SMS) has been explored as a means to optimize and support behaviour change. However, there is minimal guidance on messaging content development. The purpose of this review was to inform the content of SMS messages for mobile health (mHealth) initiatives designed to support anti-retroviral therapy adherence and clinic appointment keeping in resource-limited settings. PubMed, OvidMedline, Google Scholar, K4Health's mHealth Evidence database, the mHealth Working Group project resource, and Health COMpass were searched. A request to online communities for recommendations on message content was also made. 1010 unique sources were identified, of which 51 were included. The information was organized into three categories: pre-message development, message development, and security and privacy. Fifteen of the publications explicitly provided their message content. Important lessons when developing the content of SMS were: (1) conducting formative research; (2) grounding content in behaviour change theory; and (3) reviewing proposed content with experts. Best practices exist for developing message content for behaviour change. Efforts should be continued to apply lessons learned from the existing literature to inform mHealth initiatives supporting HIV/AIDS care and treatment
Business · Family medicine · Formative assessment · Internet privacy · mHealth · Psychological intervention · Short Message Service · Text message · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Mental Health Interventions · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Nursing · Psychology
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The WHO public-health approach to antiretroviral treatment against HIV in resource-limited settings
The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service Delivery Processes
Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1)
The Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change
Beyond reminders
Patient and provider perspectives on cellular phone-based technology to improve HIV treatment adherence
Perceptions of HIV infected patients on the use of cell phone as a tool to support their antiretroviral adherence; a cross-sectional study in a large referral hospital in Kenya
Using Mobile Phones to Improve Clinic Attendance Amongst an Antiretroviral Treatment Cohort in Rural Uganda
The Acceptability and Perceived Usefulness of a Weekly Clinical SMS Program to Promote HIV Antiretroviral Medication Adherence in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Mobile Phone-Based Antiretroviral Adherence Support in Vietnam
Feasibility of Interactive Text message Response (ITR) as a Novel, Real-Time Measure of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV+ Youth
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |