Mental health outreach via supportive text messages during the CoViD-19 pandemic: improved mental health and reduced suicidal ideation after six weeks in subscribers of Text4Hope compared to a control population - Agyapong VIO, Shalaby R, Hrabok M, Vuong W, Noble JM, Gusnowski A, Mrklas K, Li D, Snaterse M, Surood S, Cao B, Li XM, Greiner R, Greenshaw AJ.

BACKGROUND: In March 2020, Alberta Health Services launched Text4Hope, a free mental health text-message service. The service aimed to alleviate pandemic-associated stress, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and suicidal p...
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