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Impact of an Educational Text Message Intervention on Adolescents’ Knowledge and High-Risk Behaviors.
- Source :
- Comprehensive Child & Adolescent Nursing; Mar2018, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p71-82, 12p, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Health care providers need to develop improved methods of educating adolescents. This study was developed to evaluate adolescents’ responses to and satisfaction with an educational text message intervention to promote healthy behaviors, reduce the incidence of unhealthy behaviors, and prevent high-risk behaviors. Adolescent participants received weekly text messages regarding high-risk sexual behaviors, healthy dietary habits, exercise, drug, or alcohol use, and social issues. Results indicate adolescents learned something new, made a behavioral change, and overall liked the delivery of educational information via text message. This indicates long-term continuation of a text message intervention is a viable means to deliver adolescent health information, thereby improving an adolescent’s current and future health status. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 24694193
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Comprehensive Child & Adolescent Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 128144440
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/24694193.2017.1323979