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dc.title | A text messaging intervention (staywell at home) to counteract depression and anxiety during COVID-19 social distancing: Pre-post study | |
dc.contributor.author | Aguilera, Adrian | |
dc.contributor.author | Hernandez-Ramos, Rosa | |
dc.contributor.author | Haro-Ramos, Alein Y. | |
dc.contributor.author | Boone, Claire Elizabeth | |
dc.contributor.author | Luo, Tiffany Christina | |
dc.contributor.author | Xu, Jing | |
dc.contributor.author | Chakraborty, Bibhas | |
dc.contributor.author | Karr, Chris | |
dc.contributor.author | Darrow, Sabrina | |
dc.contributor.author | Figueroa, Caroline Astrid | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-13T07:30:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-13T07:30:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-05-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Aguilera, Adrian, Hernandez-Ramos, Rosa, Haro-Ramos, Alein Y., Boone, Claire Elizabeth, Luo, Tiffany Christina, Xu, Jing, Chakraborty, Bibhas, Karr, Chris, Darrow, Sabrina, Figueroa, Caroline Astrid (2021-05-07). A text messaging intervention (staywell at home) to counteract depression and anxiety during COVID-19 social distancing: Pre-post study. JMIR Mental Health 8 (11) : e25298. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.2196/25298 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2368-7959 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/233099 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Social distancing and stay-at-home orders are critical interventions to slow down person-to-person transmission of COVID-19. While these societal changes help contain the pandemic, they also have unintended negative consequences, including anxiety and depression. We developed StayWell, a daily skills-based SMS text messaging program, to mitigate COVID-19–related depression and anxiety symptoms among people who speak English and Spanish in the United States. Objective: This paper describes the changes in StayWell participants’ anxiety and depression levels after 60 days of exposure to skills-based SMS text messages. Methods: We used self-administered, empirically supported web-based questionnaires to assess the demographic and clinical characteristics of StayWell participants. Anxiety and depression were measured using the 2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-2) scale and the 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) scale at baseline and 60-day timepoints. We used 2-tailed paired t tests to detect changes in PHQ-8 and GAD-2 scores from baseline to follow-up measured 60 days later. Results: The analytic sample includes 193 participants who completed both the baseline and 60-day exit questionnaires. At the 60-day time point, there were significant reductions in both PHQ-8 and GAD-2 scores from baseline. We found an average reduction of –1.72 (95% CI –2.35 to –1.09) in PHQ-8 scores and –0.48 (95% CI –0.71 to –0.25) in GAD-2 scores. These improvements translated to an 18.5% and 17.2% reduction in mean PHQ-8 and GAD-2 scores, respectively. Conclusions: StayWell is an accessible, low-intensity population-level mental health intervention. Participation in StayWell focused on COVID-19 mental health coping skills and was related to improved depression and anxiety symptoms. In addition to improvements in outcomes, we found high levels of engagement during the 60-day intervention period. Text messaging interventions could serve as an important public health tool for disseminating strategies to manage mental health. © Adrian Aguilera, Rosa Hernandez-Ramos, Alein Y Haro-Ramos, Claire Elizabeth Boone, Tiffany Christina Luo, Jing Xu, Bibhas Chakraborty, Chris Karr, Sabrina Darrow, Caroline Astrid Figueroa. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (https://mental.jmir.org), 01.11.2021. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. | |
dc.publisher | JMIR Publications Inc. | |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.source | Scopus OA2021 | |
dc.subject | Anxiety | |
dc.subject | Cognitive behavioral therapy | |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | |
dc.subject | Depression | |
dc.subject | Intervention | |
dc.subject | Mental health | |
dc.subject | MHealth | |
dc.subject | Microrandomized trials | |
dc.subject | Mobile health | |
dc.subject | SMS | |
dc.subject | Text messaging | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | DEAN'S OFFICE (DUKE-NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL) | |
dc.contributor.department | DUKE-NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL | |
dc.description.doi | 10.2196/25298 | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | JMIR Mental Health | |
dc.description.volume | 8 | |
dc.description.issue | 11 | |
dc.description.page | e25298 | |
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