A Self-management SMS Text Messaging Intervention for People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Feasibility and Acceptability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health technologies can be useful for providing disease self-management information and support to people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Objective

The aim of this study was to test a self-management SMS text messaging intervention for people with IBD. Our goal was to examine intervention feasibility, acceptability, and engagement and to preliminarily evaluate improvements in certain self-reported health outcomes among participants.

Methods

We developed an SMS text messaging program called Text4IBD. The program sent daily support messages and resources about disease self-management over the course of a 2-week, single-group, pretest-posttest intervention to participants (N=114) diagnosed with IBD. We examined intervention feasibility, acceptabi

SUBMITTER: Rohde JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9123538 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature