Text messaging plus educational materials improves healthy eating in uncontrolled diabetes
Text Messages Plus Education Improve Healthy Eating in Diabetes Care
This three-arm pragmatic randomized trial in 666 African-American adults with uncontrolled diabetes found that adding text messaging to educ…
A trial found that adding text messages to diabetes education helped participants eat healthier more often than education alone.
Perspective review discusses chronic air pollution effects on children and older adults in Puerto Rico
Air pollution may change your body’s microbes and raise cancer risk
This perspective review examines the impact of chronic air pollution and environmental exposures on children and older adults.
Tiny particles in the air we breathe may be altering the body’s microbiome and increasing cancer risk, especially in kids and older adults l…
Digital smoking cessation intervention for psychiatric inpatients shows preliminary abstinence benefits postdischarge
Digital tool helps psychiatric patients quit smoking after hospital
This randomized pilot trial enrolled 58 psychiatric inpatients who were tobacco users.
A new digital program helps psychiatric patients stay off cigarettes after leaving the hospital, when support usually drops off and relapse …
Video and plaque disclosing tablets improved oral hygiene indices in adult orthodontic patients compared to verbal instructions alone
Verbal instructions may be enough for orthodontic patients to improve oral hygiene
This open label randomised controlled trial enrolled 96 participants randomised to receive video, plaque disclosing tablets, or verbal instr…
A trial of 96 adult orthodontic patients found that simple verbal instructions improved oral hygiene just as well as video or plaque tablets…
Chatbot plus brochures did not improve cataract knowledge or anxiety vs brochures alone
A Chatbot Fails to Beat Brochures for Cataract Info
This pilot randomized controlled trial of 64 cataract surgery patients compared standard brochures plus a hospital-specific chatbot (Mina) t…
A new chatbot for cataract surgery patients did not teach them more than simple brochures and struggled with older users.
Virtual Reality methods improved reproductive health and family planning attitudes in women compared to face-to-face training
Virtual reality training boosts family planning attitudes in women
This randomized controlled trial enrolled 120 patients across three groups to evaluate Virtual Reality methods for reproductive health and f…
A new trial shows virtual reality methods significantly improve reproductive health attitudes compared to standard face-to-face training for…
Disaster education boosts preparedness in Turkish women, randomized trial finds
Disaster education boosts preparedness in women in western Turkey
This randomized controlled trial in 120 women in western Turkey found that a structured disaster awareness program significantly improved di…
A four-week course on disaster types and first aid significantly improved awareness and preparedness scores in women compared to a nutrition…
Nutrition Info front-of-package labels improve consumer understanding in online trial
Simple nutrition labels help shoppers pick healthier food options
In an online randomized experiment with 5,636 U.S.
New front-of-package labels improved how shoppers identify healthy food. The Nutrition Info label led to the biggest gains in understanding.
Facebook campaign boosts awareness but not school meal uptake in children
Facebook campaigns did not increase childrens school meal participation
This RCT of 832 parents in states with universal free school meals found that a 6-week Facebook campaign increased awareness of school meals…
A six-week Facebook campaign for parents did not increase childrens school lunch or breakfast eating despite higher message engagement.
Educational video improves spirometry success in preschool children
Short Video Boosts Spirometry Success in Preschoolers
This randomized controlled trial in 132 preschool children found that watching a short educational video before spirometry significantly imp…
A short educational video helped 84% of preschoolers complete a lung test successfully, compared to 66% with standard instructions.
Mental health information and diagnosis reduced guilt ratings in mock criminal trial participants
More mental health details in court lowered guilt ratings for those with higher knowledge
This randomized controlled trial involved 243 mock criminal trial participants.
Adding mental health details and diagnoses to a case reduced guilt ratings, especially for people who understand these conditions better.
Motivational Interviewing Program Reduces Digital Game Addiction and Cyberbullying in Adolescents
Motivational Interviewing Cuts Digital Game Addiction in Teens
This randomized controlled trial in 52 ninth-grade adolescents from a single high school in Türkiye found that a motivational interviewing-s…
A brief program using motivational interviewing reduced digital game addiction and cyberbullying in ninth graders.