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Participant Adherence and Contact Behavior in a Guided Internet Intervention for Depressive Symptoms: Exploratory Study

Participant Adherence and Contact Behavior in a Guided Internet Intervention for Depressive Symptoms: Exploratory Study

Indeed, there is anecdotal evidence that the number of messages written by participants may provide clues (personal communication from a study by Berger and colleagues [11]). For example, some participants had written many messages to the therapists and sought more contact. These participants tended to improve less than participants who wrote fewer messages to their therapist.

Oliver Thomas Bur, Thomas Berger

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e46860

Using Text Messaging Surveys in General Practice Research to Engage With People From Low-Income Groups: Multi-Methods Study

Using Text Messaging Surveys in General Practice Research to Engage With People From Low-Income Groups: Multi-Methods Study

Mobile phone ownership in countries with advanced economies is almost universal [1,2], and most phone users regularly send text messages through an SMS. [3] An SMS text message is one of the most frequently used channels of interpersonal mobile communication that enables real-time exchange of alphanumeric messages, commonly in packages of up to 160 characters [4], and may be delivered manually or through an automated system.

Elizabeth Sturgiss, Jenny Advocat, Christopher Barton, Emma N Walker, Suzanne Nielsen, Annemarie Wright, Tina Lam, Nilakshi Gunatillaka, Symrin Oad, Christopher Wood

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2024;12:e55354

Developing a Text Messaging Intervention to Prevent Binge and Heavy Drinking in a Military Population: Mixed Methods Development Study

Developing a Text Messaging Intervention to Prevent Binge and Heavy Drinking in a Military Population: Mixed Methods Development Study

As the types of messages that civilians find persuasive may not be persuasive to military personnel, it is crucial to develop messages using feedback directly from Airmen in Technical Training to find messages that will be compelling and influential for this population. While individually tailoring the messages is often presumed to be beneficial in targeting addictive behaviors, there are also benefits to having universally acceptable messages.

Chase A Aycock, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Xin-Qun Wang, Daniel G Cassidy, Jordan M Ellis, Robert C Klesges, G Wayne Talcott, Kara Wiseman

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e55041

Testing Behavioral Messages to Increase Recruitment to Health Research When Embedded Within Social Media Campaigns on Twitter: Web-Based Experimental Study

Testing Behavioral Messages to Increase Recruitment to Health Research When Embedded Within Social Media Campaigns on Twitter: Web-Based Experimental Study

To generate authentic Twitter messages, real tweets were posted on a dummy Twitter account, alongside an infographic detailing information about CLOCS. Screenshots were taken of these posts for use in the experiment (the messages were immediately deleted after each one was posted; Figures S1, S2, and S3 in Multimedia Appendix 1 contain screenshots of the messages). Messages used in the experimental study with readability scores and character count.

Sandro T Stoffel, Jing Hui Law, Robert Kerrison, Hannah R Brewer, James M Flanagan, Yasemin Hirst

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e48538

Effects of Prosocial and Hope-Promoting Communication Strategies on COVID-19 Worry and Intentions for Risk-Reducing Behaviors and Vaccination: Experimental Study

Effects of Prosocial and Hope-Promoting Communication Strategies on COVID-19 Worry and Intentions for Risk-Reducing Behaviors and Vaccination: Experimental Study

Research on PS motivation has further shown that behavioral messages that focus attention on others (“others-focused framing”) can be perceived as more persuasive than messages that focus attention on oneself (“self-focused framing”) [14,15]. Luttrell and Petty [14] have shown that people perceive “others-focused messaging” about social distancing as more persuasive than self-focused messaging and posited that this is because others-focused messages serve as moral arguments for adopting behaviors [10].

Elizabeth Scharnetzki, Leo Waterston, Aaron M Scherer, Alistair Thorpe, Angela Fagerlin, Paul K J Han

JMIR Form Res 2023;7:e41959

COVID-19–Associated Misinformation Across the South Asian Diaspora: Qualitative Study of WhatsApp Messages

COVID-19–Associated Misinformation Across the South Asian Diaspora: Qualitative Study of WhatsApp Messages

We asked individuals who self-identified as members of the South Asian or Desi community to forward deidentified screenshots of Whats App messages containing what they perceived to be “misinformation or rumors” related to COVID-19 to an official study phone number. This allowed us to receive messages being transmitted or forwarded within Whats App without any personal or identifiable information included.

Anjana E Sharma, Kiran Khosla, Kameswari Potharaju, Arnab Mukherjea, Urmimala Sarkar

JMIR Infodemiology 2023;3:e38607

Incorporating Behavioral Trigger Messages Into a Mobile Health App for Chronic Disease Management: Randomized Clinical Feasibility Trial in Diabetes

Incorporating Behavioral Trigger Messages Into a Mobile Health App for Chronic Disease Management: Randomized Clinical Feasibility Trial in Diabetes

Behavioral trigger messages, or relevant text messages, are one way of facilitating behavior change by cueing targeted actions and providing reinforcement as needed (ie, increasing motivation and simplifying tasks to improve ability). Although shown to be useful for improving self-efficacy and self-management, most studies utilizing trigger messages have focused solely on reminder messages [10-12].

Scott Sittig, Jing Wang, Sriram Iyengar, Sahiti Myneni, Amy Franklin

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2020;8(3):e15927