Text
messages have been proven several times to be a positive medium for
improving health outcomes. Text message intervention studies for smoking cessation, medication adherence and weight loss have all come back with positive results.
While
all of the studies focused on tailoring messages, the researchers agreed
that a good next step for texting studies is a three-way texting
system, which is helpful to adding an even more human element to the
intervention.
“In
other studies that we’ve done we’ve created three-way messages, send
out, come back in and receive a tailored message based on your
response,” .... “And we found that patients sometimes think
that it’s their doctor texting back. So we’ve used it as a communication
tool, to really think that they’re being cared about.” More
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