title: Pretesting mHealth: Implications for Campaigns among Underserved Patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  For health campaigns, pretesting the channel of message delivery and process evaluation is important to eventual campaign effectiveness. We conducted a pilot study to pretest text messaging as a mHealth channel for traditionally underserved patients.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The primary objectives of the research were to assess 1) successful recruitment of these patients for a text message study and 2) whether recruited patients would engage in a process evaluation after receiving the text message.
  
  
  METHODS
  Recruited patients were sent a text message and then called a few hours later to assess whether they had received, read, and remembered the sent text message.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We approached twenty patients, of whom fifteen consented to participate. Of these consented participants, ten (67%) engaged in the process evaluation and eight (53%) were confirmed as receiving, reading, and remembering the text message.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We found that traditionally underserved and under-researched patients can be recruited to participate in a text message study, and that recruited patients would engage in a process evaluation after receiving the text message.
authors.affiliation: Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA ; School of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Disha
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases and Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA ; Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center 2002 Holcombe Blvd (Mailstop 152), Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Monisha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arya