Can text messages increase safer sex behaviours in young people? Intervention development and pilot randomised controlled trial

Free, Caroline; McCarthy, Ona; French, Rebecca S; Wellings, Kaye; Michie, Susan; Roberts, Ian; Devries, Karen; Rathod, Sujit; Bailey, Julia; Syred, Jonathan; Edwards, Phil; Hart, Graham; Palmer, Melissa; Baraitser, Paula

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The researchers developed an intervention targeting safer sex behaviours that was acceptable to young people and the pilot trial showed that a main trial would be feasible.

Caroline Free, Ona McCarthy, Rebecca S French, Kaye Wellings, Susan Michie, Ian Roberts, Karen Devries, Sujit Rathod, Julia Bailey, Jonathan Syred, Phil Edwards, Graham Hart, Melissa Palmer & Paula Baraitser.

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Caroline Free ^1,^*, Ona McCarthy ¹, Rebecca S French ², Kaye Wellings ², Susan Michie ³, Ian Roberts ¹, Karen Devries ⁴, Sujit Rathod ¹, Julia Bailey ³, Jonathan Syred ⁵, Phil Edwards ¹, Graham Hart ³, Melissa Palmer ¹, Paula Baraitser ⁵

¹ Clinical Trials Unit, Department for Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
² Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
³ Faculty of Population Sciences, University College London, London, UK
⁴ Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
⁵ Sexual Health Research Group, King’s College London, London, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: caroline.free@lshtm.ac.uk

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