Published on in Vol 8, No 11 (2021): November

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/25298, first published .
A Text Messaging Intervention (StayWell at Home) to Counteract Depression and Anxiety During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Pre-Post Study

A Text Messaging Intervention (StayWell at Home) to Counteract Depression and Anxiety During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Pre-Post Study

A Text Messaging Intervention (StayWell at Home) to Counteract Depression and Anxiety During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Pre-Post Study

Adrian Aguilera   1, 2 , PhD ;   Rosa Hernandez-Ramos   1 , BA ;   Alein Y Haro-Ramos   3 , MPH ;   Claire Elizabeth Boone   3 , MPH ;   Tiffany Christina Luo   1 , MSW ;   Jing Xu   4, 5 , PhD ;   Bibhas Chakraborty   5, 6, 7 , PhD ;   Chris Karr   8 , BSc, MSc ;   Sabrina Darrow   2 , PhD ;   Caroline Astrid Figueroa   1 , MD, PhD

1 School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

2 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

3 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

4 Data Science Programme, Division of Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Zhuhai, China

5 Center for Quantitative Medicine, Duke National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

6 Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

7 Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

8 Audacious Software, Chicago, IL, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Adrian Aguilera, PhD
  • School of Social Welfare
  • University of California, Berkeley
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