Patients’ Engagement With “Sweet Talk” – A Text Messaging Support System for Young People With Diabetes
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Abstract
Automated, scheduled text messaging successfully engaged young people with diabetes. While the system was primarily designed to provide "push" support to patients, submission of clinical data and queries illustrates that it was seen as a trusted medium for communicating with care providers. Responses to the newsletters and submission of personal experiences and tips for circulation to other participants also illustrate the potential value of such interventions for establishing a sense of community. Although participants submitted relatively few messages, positive responses to the system suggest that most derived passive support from reading the messages. The Sweet Talk system could be readily adapted to suit other chronic disease models and age groups, and the results of this study may help to inform the design of future text message support interventions.
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