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Promoting Youth Mental Health via Text-Messages: A New Zealand Feasibility Study.

Emily R ArpsMyron D FriesenNickola C Overall
Published in: Applied psychology. Health and well-being (2018)
This interactive e-health promotion strategy seemed to promote strong engagement and showed promising effectiveness with young people, with some challenges to feasibility due to the labor intensive nature of sending and responding to a large number of text-messages. The importance of carefully considering risk management strategies when developing such programs was also highlighted.
Keyphrases
  • health promotion
  • mental health
  • smoking cessation
  • randomized controlled trial
  • systematic review
  • mental illness
  • public health
  • social media
  • physical activity
  • young adults
  • middle aged