Crafting Appealing Text Messages to Encourage Colorectal Cancer Screening Test Completion: A Qualitative Study
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Crafting Appealing Text Messages to Encourage Colorectal Cancer Screening Test Completion: A Qualitative Study
BACKGROUND mHealth interventions that incorporate text messages have great potential to increase receipt of preventive health services such as colorectal cancer screening. However, little is known about older adult perspectives regarding the receipt of text messages from their health care providers. OBJECTIVE To assess whether older adults would value and access text messages from their physi...
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عنوان ژورنال: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2291-5222
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4651