Feasibility and acceptability of SMS text messaging in a prostate cancer educational intervention for African American men

African Americans’ greater access to mobile phones makes short messaging service technology a promising complement to health promotion interventions. Short messaging service text messages were added to the Men’s Prostate Awareness Church Training project, a men’s health intervention for African Amer...

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Published in:Health informatics journal 2016-12, Vol.22 (4), p.932-947
Main Authors: Le, Daisy, Holt, Cheryl L, Saunders, Darlene R, Wang, Min Qi, Coriolan, Annie, Savoy, Alma D, Slade, Jimmie L, Muwwakkil, Bettye, Atkinson, Nancy L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
African Americans
African Americans - psychology
Aged
Education - methods
Education - trends
Focus Groups
Health promotion
Humans
Intervention
Male
Medical Informatics - instrumentation
Medical Informatics - methods
Mens health
Middle Aged
Patient Acceptance of Health Care - ethnology
Patient Acceptance of Health Care - psychology
Patient Education as Topic - methods
Patient Education as Topic - standards
Prostate cancer
Prostatic Neoplasms - ethnology
Prostatic Neoplasms - psychology
Prostatic Neoplasms - therapy
Religion and Medicine
Smartphones
Text messaging
Text Messaging - instrumentation
Workshops
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Summary:African Americans’ greater access to mobile phones makes short messaging service technology a promising complement to health promotion interventions. Short messaging service text messages were added to the Men’s Prostate Awareness Church Training project, a men’s health intervention for African American men. We report on the feasibility and acceptability of the use of short messaging service text messages in the intervention. Short messaging service text messages served as (1) workshop reminders; (2) post-workshop message reinforcement; (3) spiritual/motivational messages; and (4) participant retention. At workshop 4, over 65 percent of participants wished to continue receiving the messages. While there was an increase in recall over time, more than one-third of the participants did not recall receiving the 53 text messages. However, recall was considerably greater among men who attended the Men’s Prostate Awareness Church Training workshops. Overall, the inclusion of text messages in health promotion interventions targeting mature African American men was found to be feasible and acceptable.
ISSN:1460-4582
1741-2811
DOI:10.1177/1460458215598636