Lay health supporters aided by mobile text messaging to improve adherence, symptoms, and functioning among people with schizophrenia in a resource-poor community in rural China (LEAN): A randomized controlled trial
ConclusionsThe addition of texting to patients and their lay health supporters in a resource-poor community setting was more effective than a free-medicine program alone in improving medication adherence and reducing relapses and re-hospitalizations. Future studies may test the effectiveness of customization of the texting to individual patients. Trial registrationChinese Clinical Trial Registry ChiCTR-ICR-15006053.
Source: PLoS Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dong (Roman) Xu Source Type: research
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