Feasibility and acceptability of SMS text messaging in a prostate cancer educational intervention for African American men

Le, Daisy; Holt, Cheryl L.; Saunders, Darlene R.; Wang, Min Qi; Coriolan, Annie; Savoy, Alma; Slade, Jimmie; Muwwakkil, Bettye

doi:10.1177/1460458215598636

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“…Messages were sent at 9 am so participants could read them throughout the day. 22 Recruitment. We enrolled participants in the messaging component during baseline data collection at each church to reduce sign-up burden on participants.…”

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“…Another study described the successful integration of a mobile messaging component into a multi-level, church-based program; however, the study focused on prostate cancer prevention. 22 To the best of our knowledge, there are no prior published articles that examine mobile messaging as part of a multi-level, faith-based program to impact dietary and physical activity behaviors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…23 Given the novelty of the mobile messaging component of this intervention, we undertook a process evaluation. Prior research suggests that mobile messaging is acceptable among AA 15,22,24 and Latino populations, including monolingual Spanish speakers, [25][26][27] as well as older adults. 22,28 To our knowledge, this is the first multi-level, church-based intervention to use mobile messaging with both AA and Latino congregations, which presented the challenge of communicating in multiple languages and across cultural contexts.…”

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Feasibility and acceptability of a mobile messaging program within a church-based healthy living intervention for African Americans and Latinos

Whitley

Payán

Flórez

et al. 2019

Health Informatics J

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Church-based programs can act on multiple levels to improve dietary and physical activity behaviors among African Americans and Latinos. However, the effectiveness of these interventions may be limited due to challenges in reaching all congregants or influencing behavior outside of the church setting. To increase intervention impact, we sent mobile messages (text and email) in English or Spanish to congregants (n = 131) from predominantly African American or Latino churches participating in a multi-level, church-based program. To assess feasibility and acceptability, we collected feedback throughout the 4-month messaging intervention and conducted a process evaluation using the messaging platform. We found that the intervention was feasible to implement and acceptable to a racially ethnically diverse study sample with high obesity and overweight rates. While the process evaluation had some limitations (e.g. low response rate), we conclude that mobile messaging is a promising, feasible addition to church-based programs aiming to improve dietary and physical activity behaviors.

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Feasibility and acceptability of a mobile messaging program within a church-based healthy living intervention for African Americans and Latinos

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Flórez

et al. 2019

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“…In a group of healthy African-American men who received a prostate cancer educational intervention consisting of short text messages related to prostate cancer awareness, Le and colleagues [99] found that 65% of the participants wished to continue receiving text messages pertaining to workshop reminders, post-workshop reinforcement, spiritual/motivational messages, and retention after completing the study. However, more than one-third of the study participants did not recall receiving the text messages.…”

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“…Features that participants were interested in seeing with respect to text messages were personalized messages, content that was relevant to them, and messages that were positive and reassuring. Conversely, participants did not want to receive test results or bad 17 news via text messages, or content that included shorthand phrases or required complex replies.In a group of healthy African-American men who received a prostate cancer educational intervention consisting of short text messages related to prostate cancer awareness, Le and colleagues [99] found that 65% of the participants wished to continue receiving text messages pertaining to workshop reminders, post-workshop reinforcement, spiritual/motivational messages, and retention after completing the study. However, more than one-third of the study participants did not recall receiving the text messages.…”

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The Use of Cancer-Specific Patient-Centered Technologies Among Underserved Populations in the United States: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Tarver¹,

Haggstrom²

2018

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IntroductionIn the US, more than 1.6 million new cases of cancer are estimated to be diagnosed each year [1], however, the burden of cancer among the US population is not shared equally.Medically underserved populations (i.e. groups with economic barriers, or cultural and/or linguistic barriers to primary medical care services [2]) such as racial and ethnic minorities and individuals of lower socioeconomic status [3], have a higher cancer burden when compared to their counterparts which can be partially attributed to differences in the access to, and quality of, care they receive [4][5][6]. A wide range of technologies are available to patients, including personal health records [PHRs] [7], Internet-based [eHealth] technologies [8, 9], mobile[mHealth] applications [10], and telemedicine [11]. These technologies have the potential to improve access to care by patients and empower individuals to participate more actively in their care [12,13]. For example, there is evidence that patient-centered technologies (also commonly referred to as consumer health information technologies) provide patient-centered care by increasing patients' quality of health care [14], improving communication with providers [11,[15][16][17], providing tailored education and lifestyle messages [18] [14], and promoting selfmanagement of health care [19]. While these health information technologies have also been proposed as a means to reduce health care disparities [13,[20][21][22], little is known about their use among underserved populations.To date, reviews on the use of patient-centered technologies have largely focused upon the general population. For example, a recent review by Kim and Nahm [23] found several benefits to the use of patient-accessible personal health records, including consumer empowerment, improved patient-provider communication, increased access to data during times 2 of emergency, improved chronic disease management, and increased likelihood of behavior change. Several concerns were also raised regarding the broader dissemination of personal health records, including data privacy and security; data accuracy, health literacy, and the digital divide. With regards to mobile technologies, Krishna and colleagues [24] found significant improvements in medication adherence, smoking quit rates, self-efficacy, and other health outcomes (e.g., asthma symptoms, blood sugar control, stress levels). Limited attention has also been given to the potential of patient-accessible personal health records (PHRs) among specific disease classes [25, 26], however, Price and colleagues [27] found PHR interventions targeting asthma, diabetes, fertility, glaucoma, HIV, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension (but not cancer) to have beneficial effects such as better quality of care, improved access to care, and increased productivity. Racial/ethnic minority populations have been targeted to interventions to facilitate weight loss; overall, Internet-based technologies (eHealth) were only able to effect short term weight loss, while mobile technol...

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Cummings

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Feasibility and acceptability of SMS text messaging in a prostate cancer educational intervention for African American men

Cited by 24 publications

References 47 publications

Feasibility and acceptability of a mobile messaging program within a church-based healthy living intervention for African Americans and Latinos

Feasibility and acceptability of a mobile messaging program within a church-based healthy living intervention for African Americans and Latinos

The Use of Cancer-Specific Patient-Centered Technologies Among Underserved Populations in the United States: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Evaluating the Usability of Pervasive Conversational User Interfaces for Virtual Mentoring

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