Design Considerations in Development of a Mobile Health Intervention Program: The TEXT ME and TEXTMEDS Experience.

Jay Thakkar Michael Anthony Tony Barry Aravinda Thiagalingam Julie Redfern Alistair L McEwan Anthony Rodgers Clara Kayei Chow

Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2016)

A merging of expertise in clinical and behavioral sciences, health and research data management systems, software engineering, and mobile phone regulatory requirements is essential to develop a platform to deliver and manage support programs to hundreds of participants simultaneously as in TEXT ME and TEXTMEDS trials. This research provides broad principles that may assist other researchers in developing mHealth programs.

Keyphrases

public health
smoking cessation
randomized controlled trial
healthcare
electronic health record
quality improvement
data analysis
mental health
transcription factor
high throughput
big data
health information
health promotion
machine learning
human health
climate change
social media