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Users' and Patients' Needs for Mental Health Services (678) Digital Mental Health Interventions, e-Mental Health and Cyberpsychology (3142) Natural Language Processing (1252) Text-messaging (SMS, WeChat etc)-Based Interventions (920) Mobile Health in Psychiatry (723) Transdiagnostic Mental Health Interventions (270)

Published on in Vol 12 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/81760, first published .
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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

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

Authors of this article:

Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Reham Shalaby2 Author Orcid Image ;   Belinda Agyapong2 Author Orcid Image ;   Wanying Mao2 Author Orcid Image ;   Ernest Owusu2 Author Orcid Image ;   Hossam Eldin Elgendy2 Author Orcid Image ;   Ejemai Eboreime1 Author Orcid Image ;   Peter H Silverstone2 Author Orcid Image ;   Pierre Chue2 Author Orcid Image ;   Xin-Min Li2 Author Orcid Image ;   Wesley Vuong3 Author Orcid Image ;   Arto Ohinmaa4 Author Orcid Image ;   Frank MacMaster1 Author Orcid Image ;   Andrew J Greenshaw2 Author Orcid Image
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  1. Agyapong V, Ibraimova L, Shalaby R, Agyapong B, Mao W, Owusu E, Elgendy H, Eboreime E, Silverstone P, Chue P, Vuong W, Surood S, McMaster F, Greenshaw A, Ohinmaa A. Supportive Text Messaging was Associated with Reduced Health Service Utilization Costs in the 6 Months Following Psychiatric Admission: An Exploratory Secondary Analysis of a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial (Preprint). JMIR Mental Health 2026 View
  2. Agyapong B, Liebenberg L, Eboreime E, Greenshaw A, Agyapong V. Translating innovation into impact: a national policy dialogue on scaling and integrating evidence-based supportive text messaging into Canada's mental health care systems. Frontiers in Digital Health 2026;8 View