Design and Multi-Country Validation of Text Messages for an mHealth Intervention for Primary Prevention of Progression to Hypertension in Latin America

Francisco Diez-Canseco   ¹ , BA,MPH ;   J Alfredo Zavala-Loayza   ¹ , MD ;   Andrea Beratarrechea   ² , MD ;   Rebecca Kanter   ³ , PhD ;   Manuel Ramirez-Zea   ³ , MD,PhD ;   Adolfo Rubinstein   ² , MD,MSc,PhD ;   Homero Martinez   ^{4, 5} , MD,PhD ;   J Jaime Miranda   ^{1, 6} , MD,MSc,PhD

¹ CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

² South American Center for Cardiovascular Health (CESCAS), Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina

³ INCAP Research Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (CIIPEC), Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala

⁴ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States

⁵ Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, Ciudad de México, Mexico

⁶ School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru