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ConferencesAttended Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA) Attended Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA) Accepted AbstractsMedicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)Lessons on Texting 4 Health from an Expert MHealth (Panel) The use of text messaging for health information and health interventions, particularly targeting behavior modification, is becoming more common around the world. There is a slowly growing body of evidence for their effectiveness in some fields, such as supporting smoking cessation. However there is little published information on how effective text messaging programmes were developed. This panel brings together international academic and practical expertise on developing and testing text mes... A Randomized Trial of an Interactive, Mobile Text-Messaging Program to Promote Smoking Cessation in U.S. Adult Smokers Background: Text messaging programs on mobile phones have shown some promise in helping people quit smoking. Text2Quit is an automated, personalized and interactive mobile health program that sends text messages and emails timed around a participant’s quit date over the course of 3 months. The text messages include pre- and post-quit educational messages, peer ex-smoker messages, medication reminders and relapse messages, as well as multiple opportunities for interaction. Objective: The... Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA)Panel on Adapting MHealth Interventions for New Contexts & Countries Particularly in the field of smoking cessation, text messaging (SMS) has been proven as an effective method for supporting healthy behaviour change. Most of the research and development to date has taken place in developed countries with well supported tobacco control policies, regulation, education and media campaigns. More recently, researchers have been investigating the potential to transfer these proven effective SMS interventions to other countries with very different tobacco control an... Full Paper PublicationsJMIR mHealth and uHealthQuit4baby: Results From a Pilot Test of a Mobile Smoking Cessation Program for Pregnant Women Dose-Response Effects of the Text4baby Mobile Health Program: Randomized Controlled Trial Developing and Pretesting a Text Messaging Program for Health Behavior Change: Recommended Steps Journal of Medical Internet ResearchUsing the Internet to Understand Smokers’ Treatment Preferences: Informing Strategies to Increase Demand Initial Outcomes From a 4-Week Follow-Up Study of the Text4baby Program in the Military Women’s Population: Randomized Controlled Trial Facebook Apps for Smoking Cessation: A Review of Content and Adherence to Evidence-Based Guidelines Published WithThis user's work may be related toPrivacy settings prevent us from displaying this information. Users who said they have met LorienAbromsPrivacy settings prevent us from displaying this information. Users who said they want to meet LorienAbromsPrivacy settings prevent us from displaying this information. |
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