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MoodText Leveraging text-messaging to improve treatment quality and engagement in safety-net primary care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for depression is efficacious, but effectiveness is limited when implemented in low-income settings due to engagement difficulties including nonadherence with skill-building homework and early discontinuation of treatment. Automated messaging can be used in clinical settings to increase dosage of depression treatment and encourage sustained engagement with psychotherapy.

The aim of this study was to test...

Linguistic analysis of Latinx patients’ responses to a text messaging adjunct during cognitive behavioral therapy for depression

Rosa Hernandez-Ramos
Edgar Altszyler
Caroline A. Figueroa
Patricia Avila-Garcia
Adrian Aguilera
2022

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796721002266

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is efficacious to treat depression, however more research is needed to understand its functions among Latinxs. This study analyzed qualitative...