OBJECTIVE There is limited evidence on whether growing mobile phone availability in sub-Saharan Africa can be used to promote high adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). This study tested the efficacy of short message service (SMS) reminders on adherence to ART among patients attending a rural clinic in Kenya. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial of four SMS reminder interventions with 48...

Nonadherence to treatment is a worldwide problem among people with severe mental disorders. Patient treatment adherence may be supported with simple reminding methods e.g. text message reminders. However, there is limited evidence of its benefits. Intervention evaluation is essential in mHealth research. Therefore, this evaluative study was conducted. This study aimed to evaluate text message r...

Background The main goal of physical therapy is to help the patient gain a better health status. Several studies have investigated the use of reminders to prevent such failures on the patients' side. This article presents a systematic review of the literature concerning reminders in physical therapy. Methods Databases were searched until May 2017 and literatures were found from April 1992 unt...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The study aimed to consider the impact of two different types of reminder on response rates and costs in a postal survey. DESIGN The study was a cross sectional survey. A self-completion lifestyle questionnaire was used. Those who did not respond after the initial mailing were randomly allocated to receive either a postcard or questionnaire as a first reminder. All outstanding...

To diagnose hypertension, multiple blood pressure (BP) measurements are recommended. We randomized patients into three groups: EMR-only (patients recorded BP measurements in an electronic medical record [EMR] web portal), EMR + reminders (patients were sent text message reminders to record their BP measurements in the EMR), and bi-directional text messaging (patients were sent a text message as...

BACKGROUND Following HIV-1 acquisition, many individuals develop an acute retroviral syndrome and a majority seek care. Available antibody testing cannot detect an acute HIV infection, but repeat testing after 2-4 weeks may detect seroconversion. We assessed the effect of appointment reminders on attendance for repeat HIV testing. METHODS We enrolled, in a randomized controlled trial, 18-29 y...

The purpose of the study was to explore relationships between nurses' perceptions of the impact of health information technology on their clinical practice in the acute care setting, their use of electronic nursing care reminders, and episodes of missed nursing care. The study aims were accomplished with a descriptive design using adjusted correlations. A convenience sample (N = 165) of medical...

Informal caregivers play a fundamental role in caring for people that need assistance and provide an effective service managing their loved ones’ health. Because of this, they have little time to attend themselves perform self-care practices. Some these practices can improve mental By snowball sampling, we recruited 15 informal caregivers, 12 females three males. Using the Wilcoxon signed-rank ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Medical students increasingly log patient encounters on handheld computers. Detailed patient records captured at the bedside would allow these log programs to complement medical education with automated reminders. We evaluated progress toward this goal. METHODS A series of electronic student encounter logs (ESEL) were designed to quickly record common diagnoses in a ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study assessed the effect of automated prenatal care reminders on adherence to standards of prenatal care at two family medicine teaching clinics. METHODS This was a reversal-design prospective study using medical records of prenatal patients during baseline, intervention, and post-intervention periods. RESULTS A total of 9.5% of patients received all guidelin...