Clinical trials: Text Messaging (Intervention)
Medication Non-adherence
Improving Adherence and Outcomes by Artificial Intelligence-Adapted Text Messages
Uncontrolled hypertension is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and many patients fail to take their antihypertensive medication as prescribed.
- Trial name
- AIM@BP (NCT02454660)
- Testing
- SMS (Text messages)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Opioid Use Disorder, Opioid Dependence With Current Use (Disorder)
Text-Messaging Telehealth and Contingency Management for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Engagement
There is growing recognition of the need for approaches to initiate treatment wherever patients touch the health care system, including the Emergency Department (ED).
- Trial name
- NCT05897788
- Testing
- Text Message Check-ins, Contingency Management
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,808 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Cardiovascular Risk Factor
Random Assignment of Intervention Messages for Developing Personalized Decision Rules to Promote Physical Activity
Our goal is to develop personalized decision rules for selecting the frequency, timing, and content of messages to promote physical activity.
- Trial name
- RandomAIM (NCT03907683)
- Testing
- Short Message with Text and Optional Image
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Penn State University
Alcohol Drinking, Marijuana
Brief Interventions With Text Messaging to Reduce Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use
This study tests the feasibility of an intervention to prevent risky alcohol or marijuana use that adds a 4-week course of tailored text messaging to a brief motivational intervention for 13-18-year-old adolescents.
- Trial name
- STAR (NCT03401333)
- Testing
- Text Messaging and Brief Negotiation Interview
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale University
N/A - Healthy Subjects
Text Messaging Intervention on Happy Family Meal for Improving Family Communication and Well-being in Hong Kong Adults
Family meals are crucial for family communication and well-being. This text messaging intervention digitalizes Happy Family Kitchen II, a face-to-face community-based intervention previously shown to be effective.
- Trial name
- NCT06747780
- Testing
- Text messaging, Control (Usual care)
- Volunteers
- 1,050 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dr. Wang Man-Ping
Road Traffic Injury Prevention, Helmet Use
The Impact Of Text Message (SMS) Reminders On Helmet Use Among Motorcycle Drivers In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
This study seeks to evaluate the impact of a text-message (SMS) program delivered to motorcycle drivers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- Conditions
- Road Traffic Injury Prevention, Helmet Use, mHealth Intervention
- Trial name
- NCT02120742
- Testing
- SMS message reminder
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 391 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Amend
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
Steering Together in a New Direction: Reducing the Risk of HIV/STD Among African American Men
African American men have by far the highest rates of HIV in the US, but there are few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions to dissuade heterosexually active African American men from engaging sexual risk…
- Trial name
- STAND (NCT02572401)
- Testing
- STAND HIV Risk Reduction Intervention, Text Messaging Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 391 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Cardiovascular Risk Factor
Precision Assignment of Intervention Messages to Promote Physical Activity - Precision AIM
Our goal is to develop personalized decision rules for selecting the frequency, timing, and content of messages to promote physical activity.
- Trial name
- NCT04972279
- Testing
- Digital message (text + image)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Penn State University
Underage Drinking
Digitally Prompted Parenting: A Text Message Parent-Based Alcohol Intervention for Incoming College Students
This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) will evaluate both the feasibility and efficacy of Digitally Prompted Parenting (DPP), a text-message based parent intervention (tm-PBI) designed to prevent and reduce alcohol use…
- Trial name
- NCT06861660
- Testing
- Digitally Prompted Parenting, Active Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 276 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Loyola Marymount University
Smoking Cessation
Happy Quit for Smoking Cessation in China
The primary objective of this proposed three-year (January 01, 2016 to December 31, 2018) project is to assess whether a program of widely accessed mobile phone-based text message interventions ('Happy Quit') will be effective at…
- Trial name
- HQ (NCT02693626)
- Testing
- intensive cessation message, Not intensive cessation message
- Volunteers
- 1,369 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Central South University
Tobacco Cessation
Text Message Quit Vaping Intervention for Young Adults
This research study, conducted by Truth Initiative, will help us learn how text messaging can help young adults between 18 and 24 years of age quit vaping.
- Trial name
- NCT04251273
- Testing
- This is Quitting, Assessment only Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,588 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Truth Initiative
Underage Alcohol Use
Alcohol Intervention for First Year College Students
While a large focus of research on U.S. college drinking has focused on the prevalence of and problems related to heavy-episodic drinking, less has focused on college students who are either abstainers or lighter drinkers (i.e.…
- Trial name
- NCT03750838
- Testing
- Text Messaging Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 99 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Texas Health Science Center
Obesity Prevention, Obesity
Effectiveness of Tailored Multichannel Interventions on Weight Loss Among Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial
overweight among adolescents is a public health issue. However, several weight loss interventions were developed and conducted for adolescents.
- Conditions
- Obesity Prevention, Obesity, Overweight Adolescents, Overweight/Obesity, Adolescent
- Trial name
- NCT06767072
- Testing
- Tailored Multichannel interventions
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 279 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Cairo University
Contraception
An Intervention Delivered by Text Message to Increase the Acceptability of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Palestine
This randomised controlled trial will establish the effect a contraceptive intervention delivered by mobile phone text message on the acceptability of effective contraception in Palestine.
- Trial name
- NCT02905461
- Testing
- Contraceptive text messages, Text messages not about contraception
- Where
- Palestinian Territories
- Volunteers
- 586 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Breast Feeding
A Mobile, Semi-automated Text Message-based Intervention to Prevent Perceived Low or Insufficient Milk Supply
The purpose of this pilot randomized trial is to determine the effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptability of a mobile, semi-automated text message-based intervention (MILK) to prevent perceived low or insufficient milk supply…
- Trial name
- MILK (NCT02724969)
- Testing
- MILK or Text4Baby text message intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 250 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Inactivity
Culturally and Linguistically Adapted Physical Activity Intervention for Latinas
The overall goals of this renewal are to replicate the findings of Seamos Saludables in Latina women, increase the effectiveness of the intervention, and measure intervention-related changes in clinical biomarkers.
- Trial name
- NCT02630953
- Testing
- Original Tailored Intervention, Enhanced Tailored Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 214 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Inactivity
Web-based Physical Activity Intervention for Latinas
This renewal builds upon our successful culturally adapted PA intervention for Latinas (Pasos Hacia La Salud, R01CA159954) and expands its focus to the critical area of maintenance of behavior change.
- Trial name
- NCT03491592
- Testing
- Enhanced Physical Activity Intervention, Original Physical Activity Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 210 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Ileostomy; Complications, Ileostomy - Stoma
The Effect of a 30-day Automated Text Messaging Intervention on Hospital Based Acute Care Encounters Following Ileostomy
Each year a large number of patients undergo ileostomy surgery, a procedure in which a portion of the small intestine is attached to a hole in the abdominal wall, allowing for digested material to pass into a disposable bag worn…
- Conditions
- Ileostomy; Complications, Ileostomy - Stoma, Ileostomy Malfunction, Ileostomy Underactive
- Trial name
- NCT03424954
- Testing
- EpxOstomy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- St. Louis University
Physical Activity
Randomized Controlled Physical Activity App Intervention for Black Women
The goal of this study is test whether a physical activity app intervention compared to wellness text messaging intervention is more acceptable/engaging among Black women who want to increase their level of physical activity.
- Trial name
- PA4HealthRCT (NCT07114900)
- Testing
- PA4Health app physical activity intervention, Wellness Text Messaging Program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stony Brook University
Breast Cancer Screening
Evaluation of an mHealth Intervention to Promote Participation in Breast Cancer Screening in Argentina
We carried out with a mixed-method study including a pragmatic randomized controlled trial to evaluate effectiveness of the intervention and quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the implementation from women and…
- Trial name
- NCT06500936
- Testing
- SMS
- Where
- Argentina
- Volunteers
- 248 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centro de Estudio de Estado y Sociedad