County Health Rankings Text Message Considerations
Best practices and information on text message-based health interventions
Text messaging interventions can provide reminders, education, or self-management for health conditions. These interventions are most frequently used in health promotion efforts or to help individuals manage chronic diseases. Technology-based interventions, such as text messaging, can be combined with other approaches or delivered as part of a stepped care/progressive intervention, beginning with the least intensive treatment and moving to more intensive, and often expensive, treatments based on the needs of the individual patient.
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Information on text message-based health interventions from the County Health Ranking web serviceText messaging, alone or with an internet-based component, can change health behaviors in the short-term, additional research is needed to determine long-term effects. These types of interventions have been shown, in some circumstances, to improve blood glucose levels, asthma self-management, and weight loss and obesity prevention efforts, as well as other health behaviors, such as smoking cessation.