Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:To test the effects of adding text messages to weekly email communications on recipients' total physical activity (leisure-time; workplace; domestic and garden; and active transportation) in employees of universities and colleges in the UK. METHODS:A randomised trial with two study groups (email only or email plus text messaging for 12 weeks) was implemented at five workplaces. Data were collected at baseline, immediately after, and four weeks after the intervention. Intervention effects on physical activity were evaluated using latent growth modelling. RESULTS:Total physical activity decreased over time in both groups but the decrease was non-significant. The only significant difference between groups was found for workplace physical activity, with the group receiving emails and text messages having a linear decrease of 2.81 Metabolic Equivalent h/week (β = -0.31, p = 0.035) compared to the email only group. CONCLUSIONS:Sending employees two additional text messages resulted in less physical activity. Further investigation is needed to understand whether text messaging may play a beneficial role in promoting physical activity in workplace settings.
journal_name
J Health Serv Res Policyjournal_title
Journal of health services research & policyauthors
Suggs S,Blake H,Bardus M,Lloyd Sdoi
10.1177/1355819613478001subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-04-01 00:00:00pages
56-64issue
1 Suppleissn
1355-8196issn
1758-1060pii
18/1_suppl/56journal_volume
18pub_type
杂志文章,随机对照试验abstract::In most jurisdictions, public policy regarding assisted death has not advanced beyond simple prohibition. However, this issue is increasingly likely to reach the policy agenda. Policy-makers may be tempted to turn for guidance to the three places in the world with developed policy or legislation: the Netherlands; the ...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/135581969900400409
更新日期:1999-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Increasingly health care performance data are being disseminated in the form of 'league tables' of health care providers, with the implication that such publication helps purchasers select the better providers, and spurs providers into improvements. This paper examines progress to date. METHODS:Three stages...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1177/135581969800300111
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To determine whether geographical areas with relatively low overall hospitalization rates have higher population-based rates of admission of patients with advanced stages of disease. METHODS:Age- and sex-standardized hospital admission rate were calculated for the residents of the 80 Local Health Units in L...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/135581969700200406
更新日期:1997-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The study, first published in 2003, looks at the root causes of adverse events and near misses in obstetrics at seven hospital maternity units by interviewing 93 members of staff, identifying the areas of mismanagement in each case and thematically analysing them. ...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2009.09s106
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hospitals are awash with patient experience data, much of it collected with the ostensible purpose of improving the quality of patient care. However, there has been comparatively little consideration of the nature and capacities of data itself. Using insights from actor-network theory, we propose that paying attention...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/1355819616685349
更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To identify factors that explain patient satisfaction with general practice physicians and hence that may drive patients' choice of practice. METHODS:Logistic regression analysis of English National Health Service national patient survey data is used to identify the aspects of general practice care that are...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2007.007055
更新日期:2008-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To explore some of the impacts of star performance ratings in acute hospital trusts in England. METHODS:A multiple case study design was used which incorporated purposeful sampling of 'low' and 'high' performing trusts using the star rating system. In each case study site, data collection comprised semi-stru...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/135581960501000106
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To assess the role of economics, in combination with clinical judgement, for setting research priorities, using osteoporosis prevention (and, as a result, hip fracture prevention) as an example. METHODS:Modelling the cost and effectiveness of each of six potential interventions to prevent hip fractures over...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/135581969600100305
更新日期:1996-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This paper focuses upon health status, need for care, and use of health care from 1994/95 to 2000/01 in the Canadian foreign-born population. METHODS:Using Statistics Canada's longitudinal National Population Health Survey, descriptive and survival analyses are used to explore immigrant health status and he...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/1355819053559074
更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The Capital Health (CH) region in Alberta serves the population of the Edmonton area as well as a large referral population in western Canada. CH is responsible for the delivery of the spectrum of patient care, from inpatient to outpatient services. Growth in outpatient care, in particular, has led to the de...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2007.007068
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Medicaid waivers have been a principal tool of innovation in health policy in the US since at least the mid 1970s. As Republicans seek to give the states more flexibility in their implementation and management of both Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act or its replacement, waiver authority is likely to be one of the ...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/1355819617702175
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::'Integrated care' is pitched as the solution to current health system challenges. In the literature, what integrated care actually involves is complex and contested. Multi-disciplinary team case management is frequently the primary focus of integrated care when implemented internationally. We examine the practical app...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/1355819616660581
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:In developed countries, community pharmacists are increasingly involved in clinical care. This study aimed to explore the acceptability to users of pharmaceutical care (drug therapy monitoring and management) provided in Portuguese community pharmacies, thereby informing future practice, policy and research....
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2010.009121
更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Understanding the environmental and behavioural predictors of wellbeing is a key driver of health and social care research. Research set in the social world examines the relationships between behavioural, cognitive, emotional and environmental factors, linking these to disease or social ills with the aim of providing ...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2010.010016
更新日期:2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The way that public involvement in research has been evaluated as a complex intervention has derailed the development of an evidence base. Two alternative approaches are available for constructing and evaluating patient involvement, each of which requires us to revisit the purposes and values that underpin it in each ...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/1355819615612510
更新日期:2016-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Automated pharmacy data have been used to develop a measure of chronic disease status in the general population. The objectives of this project were to refine and apply a model of chronic disease identification using Italian automated pharmacy data; to describe how this model may identify patt...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/135581905774414259
更新日期:2005-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To compare the cost-effectiveness of four third molar guideline implementation strategies. METHODS:Fifty-one dental practices in Scotland were randomized to one of four implementation strategies. The effectiveness of the strategies was measured by general dental practitioners' compliance with the guideline....
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1258/1355819054339031
更新日期:2005-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To explore the tensions across the primary-secondary interface when referral from primary care is to a team and to inform service developments in other specialties. METHODS:A nested qualitative study within a randomized controlled trial of primary care and Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) in Croydon and...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2007.006053
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The National Health Service (NHS) in England is not only a commissioner and provider of health care to the sick, but also offers certainty and peace of mind to all citizens--even those who do not use the health service in any year. However, due to the recent dominance of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis as...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2009.009024
更新日期:2010-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::There has been much speculation about whether the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has, or ought to have, a 'threshold' figure for the cost of an additional quality-adjusted life-year above which a technology will not be recommended for use. We argue that it is not constitutionally appropri...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/135581907779497567
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The United States Government's Medicaid expansion policy has important implications for health centres, since a large proportion of health centre patients are Medicaid enrollees. The objective of this study was to compare primary care utilization and clinical quality performance between health centres in Med...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/1355819618788592
更新日期:2019-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::It is important to include non English speakers in health services research to ensure not only the generalisability of findings but also to address health inequalities and promote social justice. One approach is to use interpreters but there is little guidance for working with an interpreter in interviews. Involving a...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/JHSRP.2012.012003
更新日期:2012-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding of academic-practitioner knowledge-sharing in the service of enhanced knowledge creation in health care. To this end, we describe the tacit and explicit knowledge of academics and practitioners and how this knowledge exists within their communities of practice. We a...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/135581903322405199
更新日期:2003-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To explain recent rapid audited change in the uptake of locally implemented, evidence-based clinical guidelines for asthma and angina in primary care. METHODS:A case study of primary care in two matched, adjacent districts in Northern England, focusing on a stratified random sample of 49 general practitioner...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/135581903322029494
更新日期:2003-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Randomized controlled trials are important for evaluating health care interventions, but recruitment can be difficult. Studies of potential participants' perspectives on trial participation are accumulating, but their collective contribution is not obvious. In 2007, we conducted a meta-ethnographic synthesis...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1177/1355819613483126
更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To assess whether it is feasible to elicit patients' preferences for treatments and then to proceed with randomisation which may allocate those with preferences to their less preferred treatment; and to describe which prognostic variables were associated with such preferences within the context of a randomis...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/135581969600100403
更新日期:1996-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Scholarship cites health care managers (HCMs) as not using research evidence in their management practice. The purpose of this review was to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to enhance HCMs use of research evidence in practice. METHODS:We carried out a systematic review and focus groups to valida...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1177/1355819618786764
更新日期:2019-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Access to cardiac treatments has been documented to vary with patients' age. It is unknown whether these variations reflect patients' treatment preferences. We aimed to investigate patients' preferences for cardiology treatments and develop a Patients' Preferences Questionnaire. METHODS:Semi-structured inte...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2008.008012
更新日期:2008-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To determine the extent to which reports of Cochrane reviews recommend the need for further research and, if so, the extent to which they make suggestions regarding that research. METHODS:We examined all 2535 reviews in Issue 4, 2005 of The Cochrane Library. Each review was categorized on the basis of wheth...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1258/135581907780279648
更新日期:2007-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To examine the influence of the English National Health Service (NHS) South and West (S&W) region Development and Evaluation Committee (DEC) technology appraisal reports on purchasing and clinical decisions in the S&W and elsewhere in the NHS, and to estimate the cost of the DEC process. METHODS:Two postal ...
journal_title:Journal of health services research & policy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/135581960300800106
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00