Personal Messages Research Articles

Effectiveness and implementation of a text messaging intervention to reduce depression and anxiety symptoms among Latinx and Non-Latinx white users during the COVID-19 pandemic

Text messaging interventions are increasingly used to help people manage depression and anxiety. However, little is known about the effectiveness and implementation of these interventions among U.S. Latinxs, who often face barriers to using mental health tools. The StayWell at Home (StayWell) intervention, a 60-day text messaging program based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), was developed to help adults cope with depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. StayWell users (n = 398) received daily mood inquiries and automated skills-based text messages delivering CBT-informed coping strategies from an investigator-generated message bank. We conduct a Hybrid Type 1 mixed-methods study to compare the effectiveness and implementation of StayWell for Latinx and Non-Latinx White (NLW) adults using the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. Effectiveness was measured using the PHQ-8 depression and GAD-7 anxiety scales, assessed before starting and after completing StayWell. Guided by RE-AIM, we conducted a thematic text analysis of responses to an open-ended question about user experiences to help contextualize quantitative findings. Approximately 65.8% (n = 262) of StayWell users completed pre-and-post surveys. On average, depressive (−1.48, p = 0.001) and anxiety (−1.38, p = 0.001) symptoms decreased from pre-to-post StayWell. Compared to NLW users (n = 192), Latinx users (n = 70) reported an additional −1.45 point (p < 0.05) decline in depressive symptoms, adjusting for demographics. Although Latinxs reported StayWell as relatively less useable (76.8 vs. 83.9, p = 0.001) than NLWs, they were more interested in continuing the program (7.5 vs. 6.2 out of 10, p = 0.001) and recommending it to a family member/friend (7.8 vs. 7.0 out of 10, p = 0.01). Based on the thematic analysis, both Latinx and NLW users enjoyed responding to mood inquiries and sought bi-directional, personalized text messages and texts with links to more information to resources. Only NLW users stated that StayWell provided no new information than they already knew from therapy or other sources. In contrast, Latinx users suggested that engagement with a behavioral provider through text or support groups would be beneficial, highlighting this group's unmet need for behavioral health care. mHealth interventions like StayWell are well-positioned to address population-level disparities by serving those with the greatest unmet needs if they are culturally adapted and actively disseminated to marginalized groups. Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04473599.

The ENDORSE Feasibility Study: Exploring the Use of M-Health, Artificial Intelligence and Serious Games for the Management of Childhood Obesity.

Childhood obesity constitutes a major risk factor for future adverse health conditions. Multicomponent parent-child interventions are considered effective in controlling weight. Τhe ENDORSE platform utilizes m-health technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and serious games (SG) toward the creation of an innovative software ecosystem connecting healthcare professionals, children, and their parents in order to deliver coordinated services to combat childhood obesity. It consists of activity trackers, a mobile SG for children, and mobile apps for parents and healthcare professionals. The heterogeneous dataset gathered through the interaction of the end-users with the platform composes the unique user profile. Part of it feeds an AI-based model that enables personalized messages. A feasibility pilot trial was conducted involving 50 overweight and obese children (mean age 10.5 years, 52% girls, 58% pubertal, median baseline BMI z-score 2.85) in a 3-month intervention. Adherence was measured by means of frequency of usage based on the data records. Overall, a clinically and statistically significant BMI z-score reduction was achieved (mean BMI z-score reduction -0.21 ± 0.26, p-value < 0.001). A statistically significant correlation was revealed between the level of activity tracker usage and the improvement of BMI z-score (-0.355, p = 0.017), highlighting the potential of the ENDORSE platform.

Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 by Jeffrey Herf

<i>Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949</i> by Jeffrey Herf

Assessment of a Text Message–Based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Adult Smokers in China

Successful smoking cessation strategies are an important part of reducing tobacco use. However, providing universal smoking cessation support can be a challenge for most countries because it requires sufficient resources. One way to expand access is to use mobile technologies to provide cessation support. To assess the efficacy of a behavior change theory-based smoking cessation intervention using personalized text messages. This study was a 2-arm double-blind randomized clinical trial conducted in 5 cities in China. Daily or weekly smokers 18 years or older were eligible for inclusion if they owned a mobile phone and used the WeChat social media app. A total of 722 participants were randomized to the intervention or control group between April 1 and July 27, 2021. Intervention group participants received a personalized text message-based smoking cessation intervention that was based on the transtheoretical model and protection motivation theory and developed by this study's investigators. Control group participants received a nonpersonalized text message-based smoking cessation intervention developed by the US National Cancer Institute. Both groups received 1 to 2 text messages per day for 3 months through the app. The primary outcome was the biochemically verified 6-month sustained abstinence rate, defined as the self-report of no smoking of any cigarettes after the designated quit date, which was validated biochemically by an expired air carbon monoxide level of less than 6 ppm at each follow-up point. A total of 722 participants (mean [SD] age, 41.5 [12.7] years; 716 men [99.2%]; all of Chinese ethnicity) were randomly assigned to the intervention group (360 participants) or the control group (362 participants). Biochemically verified continuous abstinence at 6 months was 6.9% in the intervention group and 3.0% in the control group (odds ratio [OR], 2.66; 95% CI, 1.21-5.83). Among smokers with low nicotine dependence, the intervention group had significantly better abstinence rates for most of the indicators after adjusting for covariates (eg, biochemically verified 24-hour point prevalence of abstinence at 1 month: adjusted OR, 2.15; 95% CI, 1.05-4.38). Among smokers with moderate and high nicotine dependence, only the biochemically verified 24-hour point prevalence of abstinence at 6 months was statistically significant (adjusted OR, 4.17; 95% CI, 1.34-3.00). The pattern was similar for quitting intention, and the personalized text message-based intervention was more effective for smokers who had strong quitting intention than for those who had weak quitting intention. In this study, the behavior change theory-based smoking cessation intervention using personalized text messages was more effective than an intervention using nonpersonalized text messages. The intervention was most effective among smokers with low nicotine dependence and strong quitting intention. This study's findings also provide further evidence regarding the potential benefits of mobile health interventions for other behaviors. Chinese Clinical Trial Registry Identifier: ChiCTR2100041942.

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Modelling the impact of safety threats on professional journalistic reporting of protests by Indigenous People of Biafra among Nigerian journalists

ABSTRACT This study aimed to determine the impact of safety challenges on professional journalistic reporting of IPOB protests in Nigeria. A total of 400 Nigerian journalists who were covering IPOB activities were surveyed. Data were analysed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and correlational analysis. The result of the study showed that journalists recovering IPOB activities in South East Nigeria faced safety challenges both online (verbal abuse, threat of attack, personal messages of harassment and reputational threats) and offline (physical attacks, harassment, damage to working devices) safety challenges. Additional results showed that women faced more safety challenges online than men, but men faced more offline safety challenges than women. Put together, women faced both online and offline safety challenges more than men. Also, journalists in private media outfits faced offline challenges than their counterparts in public media stations who faced more online safety challenges. Put together, journalists in private media stations faced more safety challenges than those in public media outfits. Safety challenges impact professional journalistic reporting in the area of routines, orientation and autonomy. Training was found to be an efficient way of assisting journalists to better handle risky assignments.

MHealth App to Facilitate Remote Care for Patients With COVID-19: Rapid Development of the DrCovid+ App.

The 2019 novel COVID-19 has severely burdened the health care system through its rapid transmission. Mobile health (mHealth) is a viable solution to facilitate remote monitoring and continuity of care for patients with COVID-19 in a home environment. However, the conceptualization and development of mHealth apps are often time and labor-intensive and are laden with concerns relating to data security and privacy. Implementing mHealth apps is also a challenging feat as language-related barriers limit adoption, whereas its perceived lack of benefits affects sustained use. The rapid development of an mHealth app that is cost-effective, secure, and user-friendly will be a timely enabler. This project aimed to develop an mHealth app, DrCovid+, to facilitate remote monitoring and continuity of care for patients with COVID-19 by using the rapid development approach. It also aimed to address the challenges of mHealth app adoption and sustained use. The Rapid Application Development approach was adopted. Stakeholders including decision makers, physicians, nurses, health care administrators, and research engineers were engaged. The process began with requirements gathering to define and finalize the project scope, followed by an iterative process of developing a working prototype, conducting User Acceptance Tests, and improving the prototype before implementation. Co-designing principles were applied to ensure equal collaborative efforts and collective agreement among stakeholders. DrCovid+ was developed on Telegram Messenger and hosted on a cloud server. It features a secure patient enrollment and data interface, a multilingual communication channel, and both automatic and personalized push messaging. A back-end dashboard was also developed to collect patients' vital signs for remote monitoring and continuity of care. To date, 400 patients have been enrolled into the system, amounting to 2822 hospital bed-days saved. The rapid development and implementation of DrCovid+ allowed for timely clinical care management for patients with COVID-19. It facilitated early patient hospital discharge and continuity of care while addressing issues relating to data security and labor-, time-, and cost-effectiveness. The use case for DrCovid+ may be extended to other medical conditions to advance patient care and empowerment within the community, thereby meeting existing and rising population health challenges.

Кризові комунікації в інформаційному просторі України воєнної доби

The present study explores crisis communications in media space of wartime Ukraine that imply the use of technologies aimed at diagnosing, predicting, and managing crises and, whenever possible, neutralizing their negative consequences. The findings indicate that the identity narrative is the foundation for the ideological matrix of Ukrainian strategic communications during the Russia-Ukraine war. This master narrative outlines the fundamental features and values of the distinctive and unique Ukrainian nation defending its sovereignty and statehood. Not surprisingly, all other pro-Ukrainian narratives draw on this master narrative because the aggressor's primary goal is to destroy the country's nationhood and devalue democratic aspirations and pro-European/ pro-Western orientations of its citizens. Crisis communications practices indicate that wartime texts should be short, with balanced factual and emotional parts and a personal message – "Address the whole people and every one of them!" These communication principles have dominated public speeches, including those of the top diplomatic officials, from the start of the third stage of the war. The crisis faced by Ukrainian society during wartime has brought to the forefront a growing number of specific suggestive texts that support the main strategic narratives and boost the morale of citizens – creolized (multimodal) texts that are disseminated through traditional and new media, social networks, combining different information codes (verbal, visual and musical texts). These texts effectively and positively influence Ukrainian society and simultaneously objectify narratives rich in emotional description. The activation of these forms is the result of tension release through creativity. Traditionally used to exert manipulative influence on individuals, this form may prove effective in crisis communication situations due to its propensity to quickly neutralize the state of uncertainty, which is difficult for the psyche.

Needs assessment in community-dwelling older adults toward digital interventions to promote physical activity: Cross-sectional survey study.

Tackling physical inactivity represents a key global public health challenge. Strategies to increase physical activity (PA) are therefore warranted. Despite the rising availability of digital interventions (DIs), which offer tremendous potential for PA promotion, there has been inadequate attention to the special needs of older adults. The aim was to investigate community-dwelling older adults' needs, requirements, and preferences toward DIs to promote PA. The target population of this cross-sectional study was community-dwelling older adults (≥60 years old) within German-speaking Switzerland. Potential respondents were informed about the study and sent a link to a self-developed and self-administered online survey by our cooperating institutions. Overall, 922 respondents who completed the online survey were included in the final analysis. The mean age of the sample was 72 years (SD 6.4, range 60-98). The preferred delivery mode of DIs to promote PA was a website (428/922, 46.4%) and 80.3% (740/922) preferred video-based structures. Most respondents expressed the need for personal access, personal goals, personal messages, and a personal contact in case of problems or questions (585/817, 71.6%; 546/811, 67.3%; 536/822, 65.2%; 536/822, 65.2%). Memory training, psychological wellbeing, and nutrition were mainly rated as relevant additional content of DIs to promote PA (690/849, 81.2%; 661/845, 78.2%, 619/849, 72.9%). Community-dwelling older adults may be willing to use DIs to promote PA in the long term, but this study identified particular needs and requirements in terms of design, technological realization, delivery mode, support, and individualization/personalization among the sample. Our results can inform future developments of DIs to promote PA specifically tailored to older adults. However, caution is warranted in interpreting the findings due to the sample's high PA and education levels.

Motivation to quit tobacco; Impact of different types of Anti-tobacco state-sponsored media propaganda messages.

Antitobacco media messages can easily reach the mass and play a very positive and significant role in changing the motivational stages among recent quitters. Motivation is the key to changing human behaviour. Motivation can be intrinsic and extrinsic. To modify tobacco-related behaviour, one must have an inherent motivation to quit tobacco. However, the outside factors, for example, protobacco advertisements, antitobacco advertisements, peer pressure, celebrity influence, and family members' influence cannot be ignored. A total of 400 recent tobacco quitters were enrolled from four colleges via a multistage sampling method. Time series research design was used for data collection at three time periods 0, 1, and 3 months. Study participants were divided into four groups: 1) personal testimony group, 2) health warning group, 3) celebrity-influenced public service announcements, and 4) natural exposure group. Media messages containing antitobacco video clippings and pictures were delivered to the participants via phone thrice a week, as per the groups assigned. All four groups were assessed for the motivational stage via contemplation ladder at 0, 1, and 3 months of intervals. Antitobacco personal testimonial media messages are most effective in enhancing the motivation to quit tobacco, followed by the antitobacco health warning messages, which are also proven to be effective in maintaining high motivation levels to remain abstinent from smoking. However, public service announcements are ineffective in keeping the motivation to quit tobacco at higher smoking. Overall, the antitobacco state-sponsored media messages, personal testimonials, and health warnings about tobacco products effectively maintain and enhance motivation to quit tobacco.

Enhancing distress tolerance to uplift motivation in recovery: Results from an open development trial.

This open pilot study examines the feasibility, acceptability, and qualitative outcomes of an interactive web- and text message-delivered personalized feedback intervention aimed at cultivating motivation and tolerance of distress for adults initiating outpatient buprenorphine treatment. Patients (n = 10) initiating buprenorphine within the past 8 weeks first completed a web-based intervention focused on enhancing motivation and providing psychoeducation on distress tolerance skills. Participants then received 8 weeks of daily personalized text messages that provided reminders of salient motivational factors and recommended distress tolerance-oriented coping skills. Participants completed self-report measures to assess intervention satisfaction, perceived usability, and preliminary efficacy. Additional perspectives were captured via qualitative exit interviews. In total, 100% of retained participants (n = 9) engaged with the text messages throughout the entire 8-week period. Mean scores of 27 (SD = 5.05) on the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire at the end of 8-week period indicated a high degree of satisfaction with the text-based intervention. The average rating on the System Usability Scale was 65.3 at the end of the 8-week program, suggesting that the intervention was relatively easy to use. Participants also endorsed positive experiences with the intervention during qualitative interviews. Clinical improvements were observed across the intervention period. Preliminary findings from this pilot suggest that the content and delivery method of this combined web- and text message-based personalized feedback intervention is perceived by patients as feasible and acceptable. Leveraging digital health platforms to augment buprenorphine has potential for high scalability and impact to reduce opioid use, increase adherence/retention to treatment, and prevent future incidence of overdose. Future work will evaluate the efficacy of the intervention in a randomized clinical trial design.

INFORMATION SECURITY IN THE TERMS THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR: CHALLENGES AND THREATS

The need to create an effective mechanism for ensuring state information security is substantiated. It is noted that the blocking of true information about the role of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, actions of the leadership and power structures does not contribute to victory in the war waged by Russia against Ukraine. The following main ways of disseminating unreliable information in the conditions of war have been identified. social networks; fake accounts of famous people, politicians, TV and radio channels; personal messages or in shared groups of Viber, Telegram, WhatsApp and other messengers. It is indicated that in the aspect of ensuring information security, a significant place is occupied by the problems of spreading rumors, gossip, and fakes. The following types of fakes are highlighted. fake advertising, fake pseudo-expert, fake conspiracy, fake clickbait. To promote fake news, there are bot farms, «Internet troll factories», and pranking is practiced. In addition, fakes in the conditions of Russian aggression are also a battle of narratives and cultures. Such components of information security as information-technical and information-psychological protection are highlighted. The main mechanisms of combating false information in the conditions of war are disclosed, namely. formation of media literacy of the population; coverage of objective information through government Internet publications, mass media, e-government; establishment of responsibility for spreading fake news among the population; control of fake accounts; neutralization of fakes by special units in the cyber police. The main directions of improving information security as a component of the state security of Ukraine have been identified and characterized.

ONLINE DISCUSSION PLATFROM

The "Technical Online Discussion Platform," a PHP project, is where people can express their thoughts and have debates about numerous topics after creating an account. It is a technical discussion forum where users may post questions and receive responses on a range of technical and unrelated subjects. The subject might concern PHP, Java, general knowledge, English, math, or hibernate, for instance. Each question category will have its own forum. Users who have already enrolled are able to post questions, answer questions, get personal messages in their notification area, and comment to other postings that have already been made. To enter queries and receive prepared responses, we used a conventional WYSIWYG editor. Even the attachments to individual comments or specific posts can be made through.

Exploring personalized fashion design process using an emotional data visualization method

In recent years, rapid economic growth and a rising personal income have increased the demand for personalized services. To address this demand, the fashion industry and academia are increasingly analyzing and developing methods to provide personalized fashion design products. This study investigated an emotional data and data visualization-based design method for personalized fashion products. By visualizing emotions and involving consumers, we generated experimental designs to encourage interpersonal and emotional communication. In addition, we proposed methods for visualizing 28 levels of emotion in design elements, as well as a generative design process based on emotional and personal text messages. In fashion products, we used color and print to match the emotion and intensity of the emotion. As a result, 40 design experiment participants rated personalized fashion design tools, outcomes, and purchase intention positively. The highest score was received by the average value for expression of personality (4.43), purchase intention (4.38), and preference and recommendation (4.42). Consequently, this study could be applied to the use of personal data in generative fashion design, as well as the systemization of the data-driven design method for personalized and participatory fashion design.

Marketing Strategies 4.0: Recent Trends and Technologies in Marketing

Industry 4.0 technologies have transformed the traditional methods of various study areas, using digitalization to fulfill sustainability and introduce innovative infrastructure. In the present era, every organization requires a distinct marketing strategy in order to meet customer and market demands in the form of products and services. Customer satisfaction, customer retention, customer behavior, customer profiling, and rewards systems are key parameters in the effective implementation of an organization’s marketing strategy for achieving better productivity. There are limited studies that have focused on discussing all the Industry 4.0 enabling technologies used in marketing for transforming the digital and intelligent ecosystem. Based on the analyses, this study identified the applications of the Industry 4.0 enabling technologies for market strategies, such as strategic information for customer satisfaction of the target customer; development of digital infrastructure for receiving real-time feedback on products and services; forecasting customer behavior to develop personalized messages or services; using business analytics to strengthen the quality of a product or service; developing effective simulations to monitor, test, and plan product improvements, based on consumer and market demand. Finally, a framework is recommended, and the vital recommendations for future adoption while maintaining sustainability are discussed.

Ext and Context of Dream (After the Material of Traditional Culture)

Introduction. The text of a dream, recorded in oral lore and handwritten books of dream interpretations, is considered in the article. The published work is aimed at the study of the process of forming a mythological narrative, which is based on dreams. Research methods accumulate tools of scientific knowledge, borrowed from Philosophy, Psychology and Cultural Anthropology. The obtained results. In traditional culture dreaming is perceived as a meta-message that must be adapted to the other members of society. The transformation of a dream into a text occurs through a logical explanation of obscure images of sleep, i. e. visually asymmetric visions of the subconscious as if squeezed into the parameters of the causal sequence. A certain similarity is considered as a typical feature of different dream texts. It is explained by the fact that they are formed in a common mental field of culture. In this regard, their interpretation takes place within the conceptual apparatus of the mythological picture of the world, which is dual. Typical dream plots and variants of their interpretation are contained in the so-called books of dream interpretations. The existence of the dream interpretation tradition until nowadays is an evidence of its relevance and is explained by the need of contemporaries to establish contact with the invisible world in order to possess hidden knowledge and predict the future. In this case, the text of the dream acquires dialectal characteristics, because it is the result of mythological thinking, but at the same time it produces mental algorithms. Thus, the verbal translation of a dream is understood as the creation of a text of the myth that can be positioned as its own or collective history. Despite the fact that modern culture tends to individualization and a certain isolation, dreaming is not always perceived as a purely personal message, that has caused the emergence of phenomenological approaches in its interpretation.

Питання термінології в неказковій прозі

The corpus of folk prose is considered in the article from the point of view of genre studies. It is about legends, lore and stories interpreted by leading Ukrainian researchers (I. Franko, V. Hnatiuk, F. Kolessa, H. Sukhobrus, S. Myshanych). They have used the presence or absence of beliefs as a basis for differentiation. The characters have been considered as important markers. These are mythical or Christian heroes, historical figures or ordinary people. A considerable role is played by the temporal remoteness of the events depiction (past, present time), as well as the epic position of the narrator (a direct participant of the events or not). The critical view of scientists regarding the term of narrative is submitted (O. Tkachuk and others). The debatable positions of international experts regarding memorate, chronicate, and fabulate, expressing a specific form of messages, are outlined. This terminology is proposed by the Swedish scientist K. Sydov. He has placed the function of genres at the center of the distinction: memorate is a personal message of one’s own experience, fabulate is information about an event full of conjecture, and chronicate is a sequence of the conveying facts. However, memorate as well as fabulate are not discrete genres, but rather represent a form of event rendering. The issues of genre studies in this area are still debatable. The purpose of the article is to present a critical analysis of the practice of distinguishing folklore prose. Historical and general theoretical research methods are used.

Feasibility of SMS booster for alcohol reduction in injury patients in Tanzania.

Alcohol use is associated with 3 million annual deaths globally. Harmful alcohol use, which is associated with a high burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), often increases the probability of traumatic injury. Treatments for harmful alcohol use in LMICs, such as Tanzania, lack trained personnel and adequate infrastructure. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of using SMS boosters to augment a hospital based brief negotiational intervention (BNI) in this low resourced setting. We conducted a three stage, four arm feasibility trial of a culturally adapted BNI for injury patients with harmful and hazardous drinking admitted to Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania. Post hospital discharge, two of the four arms included patients receiving either a standard or personalized short message service (SMS) booster to enhance and or perpetuate the effect of the in-hospital BNI. Text messages were sent weekly throughout a 3-month follow-up period. SMS feasibility was assessed according to the TIDier checklist evaluating what, when, how much, tailoring processes, modifications and how well (intervention fidelity). Data was collected with SMS logs and short answer surveys to participants. A total of 41 study participants were assigned to each receive 12 SMS over a three-month period; 38 received messages correctly, 3 did not receive intended messages, and 1 received a message who was not intended to. Of the 258 attempted texts, 73% were successfully sent through the messaging system. Of the messages that failed delivery, the majority were not able to be sent due to participants traveling out of cellular service range or turning off their phones. Participants interviewed in both booster arms reported that messages were appropriate, and that they would appreciate the continuation of such reminders. At 6-month follow-up, 100% (n = 11) of participants interviewed believed that the boosters had a positive impact on their behavior, with 90% reporting a large impact. This study demonstrated feasibility and acceptability of the integration of SMS mobile health technology to supplement this type of nurse-led BNI. SMS booster is a practical tool that can potentially prolong the impact of a brief hospital based intervention to enact behavioral change in injury patients with AUD.

ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS OF SENT AND UNSENT MESSAGES VIA PERSONAL MESSAGES AND GROUP CHATS

New features of communication technology are gaining much attention in computer-mediated communication in relation to speech acts and conversational implicatures which aim to transcend the conventional and nonconventional meaning of words, phrases, or sentences when an interlocutor conveys messages in varied contexts. By examining 30 exchanges and conducting survey interviews, this study concerns the illocutionary acts of sent and unsent messages both in personal messages and group chats via an online messaging application. The findings show that there are 7 identified meanings of unsent messages; moreover, although there are similarities, the meaning varies depending on the context. The study also shows that students use representatives more frequently than the other illocutionary acts in sent messages both in personal and group chats. It is also noteworthy to point out that students rarely use greeting speech acts in their messages.

CHEC-UP: A Digital Intervention to Reduce Disparities in Well-Child and Immunization Completion in Community Health

Objective&#x0D; Well-child visits and immunizations among children in the U.S. declined at the pandemic’s onset and vulnerable populations have been disproportionately affected. This pilot projects tested an innovative mechanism to use chatbots to engage caregivers in evidence-based preventive care for children. &#x0D; Design &#x0D; We used artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled chatbots to personalize messages and facilitate appointment scheduling over a five-month period. Chatbots introduced a novel way to connect vulnerable populations to care and challenged traditional convention of provider-patient engagement.&#x0D; Setting&#x0D; The pilot study was conducted at a Community Health Center in Chicago, Illinois that serves roughly 10,500 children, and 82% of patients are racial and/or ethnic minorities. &#x0D; Participants &#x0D; We targeted outreach to 200 English and Spanish-speaking families with children 0-17 years of age for proactive outreach using chatbots promoting well-child visit completion and up-to-date immunization status; moreover, a special emphasis was placed on the 0-2 age group as the first two years represent a critical time for primary prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases.&#x0D; InterventionsThe intervention focused on pre-visit engagement by launching an AI-enabled chatbot to deliver personalized messages and facilitate appointment scheduling via mobile devices. CHEC-UP also provided evidence-based anticipatory guidance prior to an appointment. Coaching in preparation for the visit with trusted information has the potential to educate, improve confidence and promote shared decisions between the parent and provider. Patient experience was measured via surveys deployed via the chatbot.&#x0D; Main Outcome Measures &amp; Results&#x0D; Chatbots facilitated a relative increase in well-child visits and immunizations by 27% in the intervention group. Well-child visits and immunizations in the intervention group increased 13% compared to the control group. Survey results and patient interviews indicated a high level of patient satisfaction using the chatbot. In addition to a favorable perception of the chatbots, patients also identified future use cases for chatbots.&#x0D; Conclusions Engaging patients with chatbots improved vaccination and well-child uptake. Patients were highly satisfied with chatbot engagement. By engaging patients and caregivers, chatbots present the potential to proactively engage patients in care and optimize vaccination uptake and realize one of societies’ greatest public health achievements: decreasing the spread of communicable diseases.