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Happiness in texting times

Happiness in texting times

An article from Frontiers in Psychology

25 September 2015
From the Article Abstract: "Assessing national levels of happiness has become an important research and policy issue in recent years. We examined happiness and satisfaction in Ireland using phone text messaging to...
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Use of short messaging services to assess depressive...

Use of short messaging services to assess depressive...

An article from the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

24 September 2015
From the article abstract: "Few studies in developing nations have assessed the use of short messaging services (SMS) to identify psychological challenges in refugee populations. This study aimed to assess the...
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Mobile phone text message reminders: Measuring...

Mobile phone text message reminders: Measuring...

An article from the Schizophrenia Research journal

17 August 2015
From the article abstract in PubMed: "Mobile technology use, including Short Messaging Service (SMS) text messaging, has increased in health care services. Preferences regarding the type or timing of text messages...
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Validity of single item responses to short message...

Validity of single item responses to short message...

An article from the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal

30 July 2015
From the PubMed abstract: "An increasing number of research designs are using text messaging (SMS) as a means of self-reported symptom and outcome monitoring in a variety of long-term health conditions, including...
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Talkspace’s text-based therapy proves to be beneficial...

Talkspace’s text-based therapy proves to be beneficial...

Article from MedCityNews

26 June 2015

A study involving the use of text messages for tele-therapy found that the majority of those receiving text therapy vs no therapy at all reported doing better.

 

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