Journal article
Efficacy of a text messaging (SMS) based intervention for adults with hypertension: protocol for the StAR (SMS Text-message Adherence suppoRt trial) randomised controlled trial.
- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Interventions to support people with hypertension in attending clinics and taking their medication have potential to improve outcomes, but delivery on a wide scale and at low cost is challenging. Some trials evaluating clinical interventions using short message service (SMS) text-messaging systems have shown important outcomes, although evidence is limited. We have developed a novel SMS system integrated with clinical care for use by people with hypertension in a low-resource sett...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Programme
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Funding agency for:
Farmer, A
Wellcome Trust
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+ National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Programme
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Funding agency for:
Tarassenko, L
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC public health Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 28
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2458
- ISSN:
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1471-2458
- Source identifiers:
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447843
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:447843
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Bobrow et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © 2014 Bobrow et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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