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  • Optimizing Texting Interventions for Melanoma Prevention and Early Detection: A Latin Square Crossover RCT

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    Embargoed until: 2022-07-21
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    Author(s)
    Horsham, C
    Baade, P
    Kou, K
    O'Hara, M
    Sinclair, C
    Loescher, LJ
    Soyer, HP
    Janda, M
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Baade, Peter D.
    Year published
    2021
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    Introduction: Text messaging is an effective way to reach large populations with health promotion support. This study aims to establish the optimal text messaging intervention to achieve behavior change in young adults at risk of skin cancer. Study Design: Latin square crossover RCT. Setting/participants: Participants were women and men aged 18–40 years living in Queensland, Australia who owned a smartphone and had ≥2 skin cancer risk factors. Intervention: Participants were enrolled from December 2018 to February 2019 and completed an eligibility survey. Eligible participants were randomized to 4 different text message ...
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    Introduction: Text messaging is an effective way to reach large populations with health promotion support. This study aims to establish the optimal text messaging intervention to achieve behavior change in young adults at risk of skin cancer. Study Design: Latin square crossover RCT. Setting/participants: Participants were women and men aged 18–40 years living in Queensland, Australia who owned a smartphone and had ≥2 skin cancer risk factors. Intervention: Participants were enrolled from December 2018 to February 2019 and completed an eligibility survey. Eligible participants were randomized to 4 different text message interventions using a Latin square design with varying personalization, interactivity, and message frequency (February 2019‒July 2019). Each intervention lasted for 1 month; between interventions, participants had a 1-week washout period in which they completed an online questionnaire. Participants completed a 6-month follow-up online survey in January 2020. Main outcome measures: Measures included self-reported sun protection habits and sunburns. Results: A total of 277 (71.2% response rate) participants completed the 6-month follow-up. The sun protection habits index was significantly higher in all the 4 text messaging interventions (p<0.01 for each intervention) than at baseline, with similar sun protection habits improvements among all interventions (p=0.27). Sunburn rates decreased significantly over time (p<0.01 each intervention), with all the 4 interventions achieving reductions in sunburn rates during the intervention periods (p=0.78). Overall, the sunburn rates decreased from 40.3% at baseline to 7.0% at the end of the intervention, and at 6-month follow-up, it remained significantly below baseline levels at 23.5% (p<0.01). Conclusions: Regular text messaging interventions result in significantly increased sun protection and decreased sunburn in young adults. Trial registration: This study is registered at the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12618001299291.
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    Journal Title
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine
    Volume
    61
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2021.03.024
    Copyright Statement
    © 2021 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Health sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/408870
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