Designing Cancer Screening Nudges for How Patients Engage With Their Smartphones
Mené aux Etats-Unis auprès de 1 275 participants (âge moyen : environ 56,5 ans ; environ 64,5 % de femmes), cet essai randomisé évalue la performance, du point de vue de la réalisation d'un test FIT dans les 21 jours qui suivent la prescription, d'une intervention comportant trois rappels automatiques par SMS unidirectionnels les jours 2, 5 et 8 par rapport à un seul rappel effectué par téléphone par une infirmière le jour 8
Smartphones have fundamentally changed how people communicate. Since they were introduced 2 decades ago, these digital devices have become the primary interface through which people engage in different aspects of their personal and professional lives. These communications are increasingly through brief, asynchronous interactions such as text messages and mobile application notifications. Telephone calls, once the default mode of communication, have come to signal urgency or disruption, rather than convenience. Yet in health care, patient outreach is often anchored in telephone call–based models that reflect an earlier era of communication. This mismatch between how patients engage in their lives and how health systems attempt to reach them has important consequences for health care.
JAMA Network Open , éditorial en libre accès, 2026