TY - JOUR T1 - Text messaging interventions increase adherence to antiretroviral therapy and smoking cessation JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med DO - 10.1136/eb-2013-101359 SP - ebmed-2013-101359 AU - Holly Blake Y1 - 2013/06/21 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2013/06/21/eb-2013-101359.abstract N2 - Commentary on Free C, Phillips G, Galli L, et al. The effectiveness of mobile-health technology-based health behaviour change or disease management interventions for health care consumers: a systematic review. PLoS Med 2013;10:e1001362.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed Promoting the uptake of healthier behaviour, either in health promotion or in disease management, presents significant challenges, both at the individual and population levels, and calls for innovative strategies and methods. As mobile technologies have advanced exponentially in recent years,1 ,2 there is an increased scope for low-cost health promotion interventions with economy of scale, and for individualised self-management support for healthcare consumers which allows for personal tailored messaging and temporal synchronisation of intervention delivery. Communication technologies have radically changed how individuals access health information and communicate, and this generates a need to examine the effectiveness of mobile technology-based interventions delivered to healthcare consumers for health behaviour change and … ER -