Digital health interventions—delivered via technologies including text messages, apps and websites—are increasingly common for supporting chronic disease self-care. Although studies have focused on improving patient engagement ...
Feb 7, 2022
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When patients' hip or knee replacements were delayed in response to COVID-19 surges, chatbots delivering encouraging messages not only benefited the mental health of patients—they also experienced boosts to their physical ...
Jan 19, 2022
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U.S. communications regulators will require that phone companies allow people to text as well as call a new "988" number for the suicide-prevention hotline.
Nov 18, 2021
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A School of Computer Science researcher is collaborating with the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) and the University of Technology to deliver a quarantine monitoring system that could be used by arrivals once state and national ...
Sep 27, 2021
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Money, doughnuts and beer. As high-tech and effective as our COVID vaccines are, getting enough people to take them to achieve herd immunity may come down to some very Homer Simpson-esque tools of persuasion.
Aug 16, 2021
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(HealthDay)—An individual email nudge can increase COVID-19 vaccination registration among health care workers, according to a research letter published online July 28 in JAMA Network Open.
Aug 11, 2021
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We've long known mothers can experience increased stress, anxiety and depression during pregnancy and after delivering their baby. Now there's growing recognition that fathers also face similar mental health challenges, but ...
Jul 29, 2021
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Regular and interactive text messaging has been shown to be an effective way to help young people avoid sunburn by changing their behavior.
Jul 15, 2021
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A team of researchers at Radboud University's, Behavioral Science Institute in The Netherlands, has found that workers using their smartphone to take short breaks do not find reductions in boredom or fatigue. In their paper ...
(HealthDay)—Calls and text messages to a child abuse hotline increased in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research letter published online May 3 in JAMA Pediatrics.
May 4, 2021
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