Effectiveness of Text Messages and Text Messages Plus Peer Support on Psychiatric Readmission and Length of Stay: Outcomes From a Quantitative Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial

Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD ;   Reham Shalaby   ² , MD, PhD ;   Belinda Agyapong   ² , MSc, PhD ;   Wanying Mao   ² , MSc, PhD ;   Ernest Owusu   ² , PhD ;   Hossam Eldin Elgendy   ² , MSc ;   Ejemai Eboreime   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Peter H Silverstone   ² , MD ;   Pierre Chue   ² , MD, MSc ;   Xin-Min Li   ² , MD, PhD ;   Wesley Vuong   ³ , MPH ;   Arto Ohinmaa   ⁴ , PhD ;   Frank MacMaster   ¹ , PhD ;   Andrew J Greenshaw   ² , PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

² Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

³ Addiction and Mental Health Services, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁴ School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada