From the PubMed article abstract: "To determine whether comprehensive quitline services combined with text messaging improve smoking cessation rates beyond those achieved by offering comprehensive quitline services alone."

mFHAST Implications: Ability of SMS messages to increase smoking cessation rates

This study provides some baseline results in terms of the opportunity for use of SMS by rural midwives to effectively record rural pregnancy rates.

mFHAST Implications: Evaluation metrics that may be applicable to further mFHAST use cases and studies include SMS transmission success rates, accuracy of reports, predictors of successful transmission and user satisfaction. 

In efforts to increase public health communications this study investigated the use of bi-directional text messaging via SMS with community based organizations working with hard to reach populations.

This study provides considerations for mFHAST in terms of when bi-directional text messaging efforts may be of benefit to Public Health communication and surveillance campaigns.

From the PubMed article abstract: "Communication technologies that enable bi-directional/two-way communications and cell phone texting (SMS) between public health agencies and their stakeholders may improve public health surveillance, ensure targeted distribution of alerts to hard-to-reach populations, reduce mortality and morbidity in an emergency, and enable a crucial feedback loop between public health agencies and the communities they serve. "

mFHAST Implications: Best methods for bi-directional SMS communications between Public Health organizations and stakeholders

From the PubMed article abstract: "The present trial examined the effectiveness of brief interventions for smokers who joined the Hong Kong Quit to Win Contest to quit smoking."

mFHAST Implications: Ability of SMS messages to increase smoking cessation

From the article objective: "The objective of this study was to analyze the efficacy of flu surveillance from combining data from the websites Google Flu Trends and HealthTweets at the local level."

mFHAST Implications: Opportunity for using SMS as a means of gathering health surveillance data.

From the PubMed Abstract:"Tobacco smoking prevalence continues to be high, particularly among adolescents and young adults with lower educational levels, and is therefore a serious public health problem. Tobacco smoking and problem drinking often co-occur and relapses after successful smoking cessation are often associated with alcohol use. This study aims at testing the efficacy of an integrated smoking cessation and alcohol intervention by comparing it to a smoking cessation only intervention for young people, delivered via the Internet and mobile phone."

mFHAST Implications: Opportunity for text messages to deter smoking and drinking habits in youth

From the PubMed article abstract: "An eight-week randomised controlled trial compared the effectiveness of three different types of message content (habit-based messages; food-group messages; general healthy eating messages) and two delivery methods (e-mail versus sms) on habit strength and consumption of fruits and vegetables in 71 undergraduate participants."

mFHAST Implications: Increasing effectiveness of dietary messages through use of SMS