Sentences with phrase «vaccine text message reminders»
«This randomized controlled trial provides valuable information for establishing best practices for influenza vaccine text message reminders.
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You can go small and send text messages for vaccine reminders or build an app that allows for diet and physical activity tracking.»
When educational information on the importance of the second dose of influenza vaccine was embedded into the text messages there was an even greater effect compared both with conventional text messages that only told families when and where to go as well as with written reminder only.
The findings showed that sending text message reminders both increased receipt of the second dose of the vaccine by the end of the season as well as brought children in sooner to be vaccinated.
Important next steps will be to assess the impact of text message vaccine reminders in other populations as well as for other vaccines.
The results showed that children in the educational text message reminder group were significantly more likely to receive a second dose of influenza vaccine (72.7 %) than both those in the conventional text message reminder group (66.7 %) and written reminder - only group (57.1 %).
Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Medical Center studied the impact of text message reminders for the second dose of influenza vaccine required for many young children to protect them against the virus.