Mobile phone multilevel and multimedia messaging intervention for breast cancer screening: Pilot randomized controlled trial

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Lee, Hee ^a   Ghebre, Rahel ^b   Le, Chap ^c   Jang, Yoo Jeong ^a   Sharratt, Monica ^a   Yee, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast cancer disparity; Korean immigrant women; Mammogram; MHealth; Mobile app intervention; Mobile health; Multimedia text message; Tailored message

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047554729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.7091     Document Type: Article

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