From the PubMed article abstract: "To determine whether comprehensive quitline services combined with text messaging improve smoking cessation rates beyond those achieved by offering comprehensive quitline services alone."

mFHAST Implications: Ability of SMS messages to increase smoking cessation rates

This study provides some baseline results in terms of the opportunity for use of SMS by rural midwives to effectively record rural pregnancy rates.

mFHAST Implications: Evaluation metrics that may be applicable to further mFHAST use cases and studies include SMS transmission success rates, accuracy of reports, predictors of successful transmission and user satisfaction. 

In efforts to increase public health communications this study investigated the use of bi-directional text messaging via SMS with community based organizations working with hard to reach populations.

This study provides considerations for mFHAST in terms of when bi-directional text messaging efforts may be of benefit to Public Health communication and surveillance campaigns.

From the PubMed article abstract: "Communication technologies that enable bi-directional/two-way communications and cell phone texting (SMS) between public health agencies and their stakeholders may improve public health surveillance, ensure targeted distribution of alerts to hard-to-reach populations, reduce mortality and morbidity in an emergency, and enable a crucial feedback loop between public health agencies and the communities they serve. "

mFHAST Implications: Best methods for bi-directional SMS communications between Public Health organizations and stakeholders

From the PubMed article abstract: "The present trial examined the effectiveness of brief interventions for smokers who joined the Hong Kong Quit to Win Contest to quit smoking."

mFHAST Implications: Ability of SMS messages to increase smoking cessation