Rapid Development and Testing of Behavioral Text Message Reminders for Antidepressant Adherence via Online Panels: Survey Study
Tia R Tropea, Steven C Marcus, Amy Bucher, Cadence F Bowden, Mark Olfson, Rebecca E Stewart · 2026
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Tia R. Tropea and co-authors test, in 2026, a fast way to build text reminders that help people take antidepressants. Forgetting and slow benefit are common reasons doses get missed. The team drafted 83 reminder texts from known barriers, half by hand and half by AI. An online panel of 181 adults on such drugs rated subsets of the texts.
Panel members gave more than seven thousand ratings in short order. AI texts scored higher than human ones on felt helpfulness. Texts that spoke to slow benefit beat other barrier themes. Self-tracking and habit-building tricks also scored top marks. The authors back online panels as a quick test bed before costly trials.
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| CREATOR | Tia R Tropea, Steven C Marcus, Amy Bucher, Cadence F Bowden, Mark Olfson, Rebecca E Stewart |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29014 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |