Feasibility of the SMART Project: A Text Message Program for Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes

• DOI: 10.2337/diaspect.27.4.265
• Publication Date: 2014-11-17T08:18:22Z
• Authors: Linda Jones Herbert; Priya Mehta; Maureen Monaghan; Fran Cogen; Randi Streisand
• Keywords: Text Messaging; Text message

This study investigated response rates to the Self-Management and Research Technology Project, a 6-week text message program for adolescents with type 1 diabetes designed provide self-management reminders education. The rate of texts was high, 78% responded during period. Girls participants who self-reported sending large number personal daily had higher rates; other demographic medical variables were unrelated rates. Inclusion mobile health technologies such as messages in clinical care may be unique, relevant method intervention youths diabetes, regardless age, socioeconomic status, or glycemic control.