169. Using Mobile Technology to Support Adherence to Medication: SMS Text Reminders and Young People Living With HIV

Health Technology-Enabled Interventions for Adherence Support and Retention in Care Among US HIV-Infected Adolescents and Young Adults: An Integrative Review

“…Identified studies were published between 2006 and 2016 with eight of these nine studies published during the years of 2012–2016. Among the sample, 77.8% (n = 7) represent pilot work [49, 50, 54–58] with sample sizes ranging from eight [56] to 105 participants [59]. More specifically, five of these seven pilots included total study samples of ≤25 participants with a shared sample in two of the pilots [49, 50].…”

“…Quality assessment assignments based on the NIH Assessments Measures ranged from fair [49, 50, 54, 55, 57, 59] to poor [24, 56], with insufficient data precluding appraisal of one study [58]. Threats to internal validity for non-randomized control pilots with a fair quality rating included no justification for sample size [49, 50, 55, 57], measurement of pre-test outcome measures at one single data point [49], and no objective adherence outcome measures [50].…”

“…Of these 275 HIV-infected youth, route of HIV transmission was behavioral (84.4%), perinatal (11.6%), and 4.0% with an unknown/other route of transmission. Sample size, race, gender and transmission route were not described in one study [58]. Sample populations exclusive to behaviorally acquired HIV-infection were observed in three of the nine studies [54, 55, 57] with total sample populations of 14 and 10, in two of these pilots [57] and [55].…”

Mobile Phone Intervention to Reduce Youth Suicide in Rural Communities: Field Test (Preprint)

“…As they transition to high school, ninth graders face several new and unique challenges and are in a period ideally suited for an intervention that engages internal and social protective factors for suicide prevention [28]. Text4Strength targets p. 24 messages to a broad population, going beyond the clinical populations on which previous research has focused [14][15][16][17]. Even amongst text messaging interventions aimed at non-clinical populations [20][21][22][23][24][25], Text4Strength is the only one with a high degree of two-way interactivity and a variety of message formats [74].…”

“…Interventions delivered through text messaging to youth enrolled in health behavior programs, such as diabetes control [14], HIV management [15], cancer post-treatment care [16], and substance abuse [17] have shown positive results. A pilot test of an automated text-based intervention for adolescents who screened positive for depression and past-year violence in an emergency department was well-received by patients and promising in terms of symptom improvement [18,19].…”