Clinical trials: Text Messages
Literacy
Leveraging Clinic to Promote Literacy in Young Children
Our primary aim of this study is to assess the impact of an early literacy text messaging program (TipsByText, TbT) for parents of children between 3 to 4-years old during an office visit without access to preschool.
- Trial name
- NCT04752943
- Testing
- Tips By Text Messages
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 381 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Anxiety, Pain
Text Message Study
The objectives of this double-blind, randomized, controlled study are to evaluate the efficacy of maintaining contact with low-back pain patients through text messaging and emailing, to decrease anxiety levels, pain, number of…
- Conditions
- Anxiety, Pain, Surgical Site Infection
- Trial name
- NCT01789697
- Testing
- cellular device/computers
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Overweight and Obesity, Health Behavior
A Mobile Health and Wellness Coaching Intervention for Weight Loss
The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a 6-month text-based mobile health and wellness (mHWC) intervention, as compared to usual care (UC), for weight loss in adults.
- Trial name
- NCT04055259
- Testing
- mobile Health and Wellness Coaching, Usual Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Smoking Cessation
A Pilot Text Messaging Intervention to Reduce Smoking in Office-based Buprenorphine and Inpatient Detoxification Patients
The primary purpose of this study is to understand the feasibility of a text messaging intervention developed by the National Cancer Institute, known as Smokefreetxt, to improve smoking cessation among opiate and/or alcohol…
- Trial name
- NCT02665208
- Testing
- Treatment As Usual (TAU), Nicotine Replacement Therapies, Text Message Intervention (TMI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 203 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Obesity
B'More Healthy; Communities for Kids (BHCK)
The BHCK study will develop, implement, and evaluate a community-based obesity prevention program, which operates at multiple levels of an urban food system (policy, wholesaler, corner stores, carryout, household, individual; in…
- Trial name
- BHCK (NCT02181010)
- Testing
- Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 890 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tobacco Use
Little Cigar and Cigarillo Warnings to Reduce Tobacco-Related Cancers and Disease - Eye Tracking
The goal of this research is to determine how removal of little cigar and cigarillo (LCC) flavor descriptors on packaging impacts attention and affective responses to LCC warnings.
- Trial name
- NCT06546618
- Testing
- LCC pack stimuli images
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Alcohol-Impaired Driving
An Interactive Text-Message Based Brief Intervention to Reduce Substance-Impaired Driving Among College Students
Substance-Impaired Driving among college students remains a significant public health concern and may be the single riskiest substance-related outcome among young adults.
- Trial name
- NCT03496129
- Testing
- Personalized feedback, Personalized feedback and text messages, Information Only
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 105 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Western Kentucky University
Reminder Systems, Text Messaging
Feasibility of Text4US Program
Pediatric Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (pLUTS) is common in school-age children and can negatively impact the quality of their life.
- Conditions
- Reminder Systems, Text Messaging, Urinary Dysfunction, Urinary Bladder
- Trial name
- Text4US (NCT05509738)
- Testing
- SMS Text Messaging
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
HIV/AIDS, Mental Health Issue (E.G., Depression, Psychosis, Personality Disorder, Substance Abuse)
Youth to Text or Telehealth for Engagement in HIV Care
Youth To Text or Telehealth for Engagement in HIV Care (Y2TEC) is a randomized control pilot to assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a targeted problem-solving intervention to youth ages 18-29 living with HIV…
- Conditions
- HIV/AIDS, Mental Health Issue (E.G., Depression, Psychosis, Personality Disorder, Substance Abuse), Depression, Substance Use
- Trial name
- Y2TEC (NCT03681145)
- Testing
- Counselor delivered telehealth intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
HIV Infections, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Improving Uptake of Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV for the Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV
Early accurate diagnosis is one of the first crucial steps in care for infants born to HIV-infected mothers. Early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) relies upon early diagnosis and results in significant reductions in…
- Trial name
- SMS4PMTCT (NCT01433185)
- Testing
- Text message
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 388 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Smoking, Smoking Cessation
Evaluation of National Cancer Institute Young Adult Stop-Smoking Program
Background: Researchers want to see how well the QuitTXT text-message program helps smokers ages 18 29 stop smoking. This is part of a larger online stop-smoking program by the National Cancer Institute.
- Conditions
- Smoking, Smoking Cessation, Cigarette Smoking, Tobacco, Smoking
- Trial name
- NCT01885052
- Testing
- QuitTXT Study, Low Contact
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 4,432 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Education, Medical, Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Comparing the Effect of Video-cases and Text-cases on Medical Students' Learning in Tutorial
This study is designed to examine how the type of learning case affects the thinking of medical students in tutorial
- Conditions
- Education, Medical, Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Problem-based Learning, Problem Solving
- Trial name
- NCT01286025
- Testing
- video case modality, Text case modality
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard University Faculty of Medicine
Medical Knowledge
The mCME Project:Delivering Continuing Medical Education for Community Health Workers Via SMS Text Messages
Community health workers (CHWs) provide essential basic medical care to hundreds of millions of people across the globe. CHWs offer a myriad of services including community sanitation, breast feeding counseling, family planning…
- Trial name
- mCME project (NCT02381743)
- Testing
- Group 2 intervention daily SMS bullet point, Group 3 intervention daily SMS bullet point
- Volunteers
- 638 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)
An Investigation of the Effect of Smartphone Usage Levels on Cervical Posture, Tongue Pressure, Balance, and Neck Disability in Individuals With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis
The purpose of this cross-sectional and comparative study is to investigate the impact of smartphone addiction on the cervical posture, musculoskeletal system, balance, and tongue pressure in individuals diagnosed with Rheumatoid…
- Conditions
- Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), Forward Head Posture
- Trial name
- NCT07627542
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 111 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Merve Şahin
Bullying
BullyDown, a Text Messaging-based Bullying Prevention Program for Middle School-aged Youth
Given the limited impact of existing school-based interventions and the time associated with implementing them during school time, more efficient and effective intervention methods are needed.
- Trial name
- NCT06017050
- Testing
- BullyDown, Attention-matched control
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 138 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Malaria
Preserving ACTs - Text Reminders to Increase Adherence to ACT Treatment
A randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess the effectiveness of text reminders sent to ACT users through an automated text messaging system short-message-system.
- Trial name
- PACT (NCT01722734)
- Testing
- Text message reminders
- Where
- Ghana
- Volunteers
- 1,140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Substance Use Disorders
TAU vs m-SBIRT in Primary Care
The goal of this research is to leverage technology in primary care clinics to improve screening, brief intervention and referral to Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment, and treatment attendance by comparing 1.
- Trial name
- NCT06250153
- Testing
- m-SBIRT (mobile-Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment)
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Telehealth 2.0: Evaluating Effectiveness and Engagement Strategies for CPT-Text for PTSD
There is a pressing need to increase capacity to treat PTSD related to or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Texting-based therapy holds promise to increase capacity and reduce barriers to delivering evidence-based treatments…
- Trial name
- CPT-TEXT (NCT05037175)
- Testing
- CPT-Text, Culturally Informed Trauma Treatment (CITT), Retention Incentive
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 360 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Alzheimer Disease
Testing the Effects of a Text Message Caregiver Support Intervention for Latinos
The goal of this randomized clinical trial it to test the efficacy of CuidaTEXT, the first Alzheimer's disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) caregiver support intervention to capitalize on text messaging, among Latinos.
- Trial name
- CuidaTEXT R01 (NCT06728436)
- Testing
- CuidaTEXT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 288 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Kansas Medical Center
Reproductive Behavior, Sexual Behavior
Reducing Teen Pregnancy in the Emergency Department
This study will determine the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of an emergency department-based pregnancy prevention intervention targeting sexually active adolescent female emergency department patients.
- Conditions
- Reproductive Behavior, Sexual Behavior, Adolescent Behavior, Contraception
- Trial name
- ERICA (NCT03866811)
- Testing
- Dr. Erica
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 146 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University