BACKGROUND Men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be severely and disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) epidemic in the United States. Effective antiretroviral therapy has altered the HIV epidemic from being an acute disease to a chronic, manageable condition for many people living with HIV. The pervasiveness, low cos...

BACKGROUND Mobile text messaging is a potentially powerful tool for behaviour change because it is widely available, inexpensive, and instant. AIMS To evaluate whether mobile Text Messaging Service is a feasible mode of raising knowledge regarding maternal and child health (MCH) and to explore issues related to mobile text messages as a mode of health education. METHOD A community-based int...

BACKGROUND A wide range of effective smoking cessation interventions have been developed to help smokers to quit. Smoking rates remain high, especially among people with a lower level of education. Multiple tailoring adapted to the individual's readiness to quit and the use of visual messaging may increase smoking cessation. OBJECTIVE The results of video and text computer tailoring were comp...

BACKGROUND Physical activity decreases from childhood through adulthood. Among youth, teenagers (teens) achieve the lowest levels of physical activity, and high school age youth are particularly at risk of inactivity. Effective methods are needed to increase youth physical activity in a way that can be maintained through adulthood. Because teens text a great deal, text messages promoting walkin...

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...

The development of mHealth applications is often driven by the investigators and developers with relatively little input from the targeted population. User input is commonly limited to "like/dislike" post- intervention consumer satisfaction ratings or device or application specific user analytics such as usability. However, to produce successful mHealth applications with lasting effects on heal...

Most accidents happens because of lack of Visibility and not Driver’s reaction on time whenan accident occurs. Increasing required Time for driver’s reaction caused to decreasingaccidents on roadways .intelligent vehicle networks brings enough time for reaction by sendingalert and alternate messages to vehicles on roadway. Main propose in this paper is aroundmodulation on Reception interval Saf...

abstract background: the parents of autistic children suffer from anxiety and tension. unawareness of parenting skills required for autistic children (parenting) doubles their anxiety. researchers have recently considered research on mobile education, especially mobile text messages. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of mobile parenting skills education on the anxiety of mothers...