RCT: Text-message reminders can increase COVID-19 vaccinations.
4 Aug, 2021 | 09:12h | UTCBehavioral Nudges Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations – Nature
Commentaries:
Text-message ‘nudges’ can encourage holdouts to get COVID vaccination, study finds – UCLA
Text reminders boost vaccine appointments – Carnegie Mellon University
Commentary on Twitter
Sometimes the tools that actually work in public health are profoundly boring. Here, a text message reminder system is shown in a randomized trial to increase vaccine uptake. Years of HIV adherence research has shown the value of simple nudges like this.https://t.co/1ndpnQ6Ha6 https://t.co/Gltll8DTJ4
— Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) August 3, 2021