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Don’t Forget the Humble Text Message: 25 Years of Text Messaging in Health

Don’t Forget the Humble Text Message: 25 Years of Text Messaging in Health

In much of the world, it is free to receive text messages and a smartphone is not required to receive a text message. Further, recipient replies to text messages can be “zero-rated” by health program providers so that they don’t cost the individual, ensuring access across socioeconomic groups. Even so, evidence shows that text message campaigns are a cost-effective way to reach people [15,39]. Mobile phones have become integral to everyday life for the majority of people on the planet.

Rosie Dobson, Robyn Whittaker, Lorien C Abroms, Dale Bramley, Caroline Free, Hayden McRobbie, Melanie Stowell, Anthony Rodgers

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e59888

Development of an Intervention to Support the Reproductive Health of Cambodian Women Who Seek Medical Abortion: Research Protocol

Development of an Intervention to Support the Reproductive Health of Cambodian Women Who Seek Medical Abortion: Research Protocol

Befriending research participants on social media is by now a fairly standard research method in digital anthropology [16], and the participants are always free to defriend the researcher if they do not want to be involved with them any longer. Research participants who use social media are typically very fluent in the etiquette of friending, defriending, and managing different identities and different social circles on the web.

Elisa Oreglia, Sokhey Ly, Camille Tijamo, Amra Ou, Caroline Free, Chris Smith

JMIR Res Protoc 2020;9(7):e17779

An Intervention Delivered by Mobile Phone Instant Messaging to Increase Acceptability and Use of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Bolivia: Randomized Controlled Trial

An Intervention Delivered by Mobile Phone Instant Messaging to Increase Acceptability and Use of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Bolivia: Randomized Controlled Trial

All participants who received usual care were free to seek any other support, whether existing or new. After providing informed consent, participants completed the baseline questionnaire through the database and randomization system. The allocation sequence was generated by the remote computer-based randomization software. Randomization occurred immediately after baseline data were submitted. All participants downloaded the app immediately after they submitted their baseline data.

Ona L McCarthy, Carolina Aliaga, Maria Eugenia Torrico Palacios, Jhonny López Gallardo, Silvia Huaynoca, Baptiste Leurent, Phil Edwards, Melissa Palmer, Irrfan Ahamed, Caroline Free

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(6):e14073

Web-Based Activity Within a Sexual Health Economy: Observational Study

Web-Based Activity Within a Sexual Health Economy: Observational Study

The Web-based service (SH:24 [15]) in this area provides free access to testing for chlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV, and syphilis for users older than 16 years with no restrictions based on gender or sexual orientation. Users complete an order form with self-sampling kits delivered home. Test kits are tailored to gender and sexuality. They include written information and link to a video that explains the self-sampling process. Participants can text or request a call-back for questions or concerns.

Katy ME Piers Turner, Adam K Zienkiewicz, Jonathan Syred, Katharine J Looker, Joia de Sa, Michael Brady, Caroline Free, Gillian Holdsworth, Paula Baraitser

J Med Internet Res 2018;20(3):e74

An Intervention Delivered by App Instant Messaging to Increase Acceptability and Use of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Bolivia: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial

An Intervention Delivered by App Instant Messaging to Increase Acceptability and Use of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Bolivia: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial

All participants will receive usual care and will be free to seek any other support, whether existing or new. The coprimary outcomes are self-reported current use of effective contraception and the proportion of participants reporting that at least one method of effective contraception is acceptable at 4 months after randomization.

Ona L McCarthy, Veronica Osorio Calderon, Shelly Makleff, Silvia Huaynoca, Baptiste Leurent, Phil Edwards, Jhonny Lopez Gallardo, Caroline Free

JMIR Res Protoc 2017;6(12):e252

Young People’s Views and Experiences of a Mobile Phone Texting Intervention to Promote Safer Sex Behavior

Young People’s Views and Experiences of a Mobile Phone Texting Intervention to Promote Safer Sex Behavior

All received usual care in accordance with standards set by the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (including treatment and support with partner notification if appropriate), and they were free to seek any other support. Participants were randomly allocated using a remote computer-generated allocation to receive either the sexual health text message intervention or the control text messages.

Rebecca Sophia Sophia French, Ona McCarthy, Paula Baraitser, Kaye Wellings, Julia V Bailey, Caroline Free

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2016;4(2):e26