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Using Text Messaging to Improve Access to Prenatal Health Information in Urban African American and Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Pregnant Women: Mixed Methods Analysis of Text4baby Usage

Using Text Messaging to Improve Access to Prenatal Health Information in Urban African American and Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Pregnant Women: Mixed Methods Analysis of Text4baby Usage

The Text4baby (T4 B) program was designed to offer support, improve health literacy, increase expectations for successful pregnancy, build the knowledge and skills to manage one’s own health, and prevent health risks by avoiding behavioral risk factors including smoking and drinking.

Tenya M Blackwell, LeConte J Dill, Lori A Hoepner, Laura A Geer

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2020;8(2):e14737

Usability and Acceptability of a Text Message-Based Developmental Screening Tool for Young Children: Pilot Study

Usability and Acceptability of a Text Message-Based Developmental Screening Tool for Young Children: Pilot Study

This review [15] also cites the study partner Text4baby [16] as an exception that specifically targets low-income pregnant women and mothers of infants receiving Medicaid [15]. Since its launch in 2010, the free national text messaging service Text4baby has delivered more than 430 million messages with health and parenting tips (G Perez-Bonany, personal communication, Dec 2018), appointment reminders, and health surveys corresponding with the due date of the mother or the age of the infant [17,18].

Pamela Ryden Ryden Johnson, Jessica Bushar, Margaret Dunkle, Sharon Leyden, Elizabeth T Jordan

JMIR Pediatr Parent 2019;2(1):e10814