Clinical trials: Text Messages
Reading Problem
Knowledge Accessibility and Availability in Forming Knowledge-to-Text Inferences Among Middle Grade Readers
Recent adolescent-based research shows that inference making improves across grades 6-12, uniquely accounts for variance in sentence- and passage-level comprehension, and that individual differences in inference making relate in…
- Trial name
- BVU-R15 (NCT03782012)
- Testing
- Supported
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 241 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Buena Vista University
Physical Activity, Behavior
A Walking Intervention Through Text Messaging
The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate adaptive goal setting and feedback interventions (Adaptive Interventions) to promote physical activity behaviors and compare it to static physical activity interventions…
- Conditions
- Physical Activity, Behavior, Overweight, Motor Activity
- Trial name
- WalkIT (NCT02053259)
- Testing
- Adaptive Goals, Reinforcement, Static Goals
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 96 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Arizona State University
COVID-19 Testing Behaviors
Examining How a Text Message-based Educational Intervention Influences COVID-19 Testing
In this Phase III study, the investigators will build off of the Phase II embedded study with some adjustments to the design to address new research priorities that examine an intervention that is network informed and delivered…
- Trial name
- NCT07074171
- Testing
- Text message-based education intervention, Historical Control
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 384 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Health Behavior
Visual Attention to Text and Pictorial Food Labels: An Eye Tracking Experiment
The goal of this study is to examine attention elicited by icon, text-only, and control front-of-package food labels. The study also aims to explore whether English language proficiency moderates the impact of icon vs.
- Trial name
- NCT05958888
- Testing
- Text only sodium label, Icon sodium label, Pictorial sodium label
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Covid19
SCALE-UP Utah: Community-Academic Partnership to Address COVID-19 Testing Among Utah Community Health Centers
SCALE-UP Utah is a community-academic partnership to address COVID-19 among Utah community health centers. The long-term objective of the project is to increase the reach, acceptance, uptake, and long-term sustainability of…
- Trial name
- NCT04939532
- Testing
- Text-Messaging (TM), Patient Navigation (PN)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 44,729 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Nicotine Dependence, Cigarettes
Penn State TXT2Quit Study
This study is evaluating the feasibility and short term smoking cessation outcomes of an automated smoking cessation intervention delivered via mobile phone text messaging as an adjunct to Varenicline in a primary care setting.
- Trial name
- NCT02367391
- Testing
- Motivational Text Messages, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 152 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Smoking, Cigar
Cigarillo Warnings Image Sorting Study
The goal of this study is to examine the impact of repeated exposure to cigarillo warnings on cigarillo users' intentions and behaviors for cigarillo smoking.
- Trial name
- NCT05838378
- Testing
- Package image sorting with pictorial warnings, Package image sorting with Surgeon General text-only warnings, Package image sorting with FDA text-only warnings
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 764 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University
Human Papillomavirus
txt2protect: Using Text Messaging to Increase HPV Vaccination Among Young Sexual Minority Men
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection that can cause cancer (anal, penile, oropharyngeal) and genital warts in men.
- Trial name
- t2p (NCT02994108)
- Testing
- txt2protect, Sexual Health Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Tobacco Use
Little Cigar and Cigarillo Warnings to Reduce Tobacco-Related Cancers and Disease - Eye Tracking
The goal of this research is to determine how removal of little cigar and cigarillo (LCC) flavor descriptors on packaging impacts attention and affective responses to LCC warnings.
- Trial name
- NCT06546618
- Testing
- LCC pack stimuli images
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Overweight and Obesity
SMART 2.0: Social Mobile Approaches to Reducing weighT in Young Adults
The SMART 2.0 study is a 24-month trial designed to evaluate the impact of the intervention with technology and personal health coaching or with technology alone on objectively measured weight among overweight young adults in a…
- Trial name
- SMART 2 (NCT03907462)
- Testing
- SMART 2.0
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 638 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Nicotine Dependence, E-Cig Use
Research and Innovation to Stop E-cigarette/Vaping in Young Adults
The aim of this study is to test intervention components to help young adults quit vaping. A 2x2 factorial design will be used where all participants receive quitline-delivered behavioral phone counseling, and components to be…
- Trial name
- (RISE) (NCT04974580)
- Testing
- Nicotine patch, Phone Counseling, Digital Coaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 508 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Alcohol Use, Unspecified, Sexual Violence
Text Message Intervention for Alcohol Use and Sexual Violence in College Students
This study is designed to pilot a text message (TM) delivered behavior change intervention to decrease binge drinking and to increase use of sexual violence (SV) harm reduction strategies among college students.
- Conditions
- Alcohol Use, Unspecified, Sexual Violence, Sexual Assault
- Trial name
- NCT05065918
- Testing
- sexual violence and alcohol use harm reduction text message content, alcohol use reduction content
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 183 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Arkansas
Smoking
SMS Turkey: Harnessing the Power of Text Messaging to Promote Smoking Cessation
The purpose of this study is to develop and test a text messaging-based smoking cessation program for adults who are currently smoking and want to quit, living in Turkey.
- Trial name
- SMS Turkey (NCT00912795)
- Testing
- SMS Turkey
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 151 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
Steering Together in a New Direction: Reducing the Risk of HIV/STD Among African American Men
African American men have by far the highest rates of HIV in the US, but there are few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions to dissuade heterosexually active African American men from engaging sexual risk…
- Trial name
- STAND (NCT02572401)
- Testing
- STAND HIV Risk Reduction Intervention, Text Messaging Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 391 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
HPV Vaccines
Effectiveness of SMS (Short Message Service) Text Messaging in Increasing Adherence to Gardasil
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease among adolescent females in the United States. Our primary objective is to determine if Short Message Service (SMS) text message reminders increase…
- Trial name
- CHAT (NCT01276184)
- Testing
- SMS Text Message
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 22 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
Tobacco Use Cessation
Improving Quitline Support Study
This study seeks to evaluate ways to improve outcomes for low-education, uninsured or Medicaid-eligible smokers who do not successfully quit with standard telephone quit line treatment.
- Trial name
- IQS (NCT03538938)
- Testing
- 1-Call Quitline Counseling, 4-Call Quitline Counseling, Nicotine patch
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,316 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
HPV
Text and Talk: A Multi-level Intervention to Increase Provider HPV Vaccine Recommendation Effectiveness
This study will test the effectiveness of two interventions (parent-targeted text messages and a brief clinician-targeted training) at increasing HPV vaccination among 11- to 12-year-olds living in Florida.
- Trial name
- Text&Talk (NCT05006833)
- Testing
- Brief Provider Training - Bundled Approach, Brief Provider Training - Benefits Approach, Parent Interactive Text Message - Bundled Approach
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8,043 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Physical Activity
Testing Adaptive Interventions to Improve Physical Activity for Sedentary Women
This study employs a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) and aims to determine the most effective adaptive intervention combining four efficacious treatments (enhanced physical activity monitor, motivational…
- Trial name
- NCT03558828
- Testing
- Step 1: PA Monitor, Step 1: PA Monitor + Text, Step 2: PA Monitor with Calls
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 301 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rush University Medical Center
Caregiver Burnout
CuidaTXT: a Text Message Dementia-caregiver Intervention for Latinos
Latino families with dementia experience substantial disparities in access to caregiver support compared to their non-Latino white peers, putting them at an increased risk for negative emotional, physical and financial outcomes.
- Trial name
- CuidaTXT (NCT04316104)
- Testing
- CuidaTXT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Kansas Medical Center
Bullying
BullyDown, a Text Messaging-based Bullying Prevention Program for Middle School-aged Youth
Given the limited impact of existing school-based interventions and the time associated with implementing them during school time, more efficient and effective intervention methods are needed.
- Trial name
- NCT06017050
- Testing
- BullyDown, Attention-matched control
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 138 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Center for Innovative Public Health Research