To Text or Not to Text: Electronic Message Intervention to Improve Treatment Adherence Versus Matched Historical Controls.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ensuring treatment adherence is important for the internal validity of clinical trials. In intervention studies where touch points decrease over time, there is even more of an adherence challenge. Trials with multiple cohorts offer an opportunity to innovate on ways to increase treatment adherence without compromising the integrity of the study design, and previous cohorts can serve as historical controls. Electronically delivered nudges offer low-cost opportunities to increase treatment adherence.

Objective

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of electronic messages (e-messages) on treatment adherence to the last cohort of a parent weight loss intervention during the second half of a year-long trial, when intervention checkpoint frequency decreases. Tre

SUBMITTER: Oppezzo MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6534047 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature