Caroline J Free

..CONCLUSIONS: Eliciting attitudes regarding the nature of hormones in contraceptives, menstrual control and natural menses could enable health care practitioners to offer more tailored advice, interventions and contraceptives to women...

..This systematic review will summarise the evidence for the effectiveness of mobile technology interventions for improving health and health service outcomes (M-health) around the world...

..Mobile health interventions could have beneficial effects on health care delivery processes. We aimed to conduct a systematic review of controlled trials of mobile technology interventions to improve health care delivery processes...

..We conducted a systematic review to assess the effectiveness of mobile technology interventions delivered to health care consumers...

..We review what is known about interventions to improve recruitment to trials. We describe a proposed business approach to trials and discuss the implementation of using a business model, using insights gained from three case studies...

..The aims of this systematic review are to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of adaptive e-Learning for improving dietary behaviours...

..We assessed the effect of an automated smoking cessation programme delivered via mobile phone text messaging on continuous abstinence, which was biochemically verified at 6 months...

..We conducted a systematic review and methodological appraisal of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions to promote effective condom use...

..Recruitment is a major challenge for trials but there is little evidence regarding interventions to increase trial recruitment. We report three controlled trials of interventions to increase recruitment to the Txt2stop trial...

..To conduct a pilot randomised controlled trial of mobile phone-based smoking cessation support intervention for the UK population...

..Psychological theory suggests that participants may be more likely to volunteer to join a clinical trial if they perceive places in the trial are a scarce commodity...

..Young people are often used as interpreters for family members in the primary healthcare setting...

..To describe contraceptive risk and compensatory behaviour, using condoms or emergency contraception (EC), in young people in education aged 16-24 years...

..The study has helped to develop and refine the model and has identified some key factors that are specifically relevant to emergency contraception use in a sample of women in education in and around London...

..We examined factors associated with having ever had sex, having more than 1 lifetime sexual partner, and condom nonuse at last incident of sexual intercourse among Canadian Aboriginal young people...

..We describe sexual relationship and condom use patterns among Canadian Aboriginal young people, and how these patterns relate to the socio-structural context as experienced by young people...

..Aboriginal adolescents are more likely to become pregnant and contract an STI than other Canadian adolescents. This study provides some of the first data on factors associated with these outcomes among Aboriginal adolescents...

..Intervention work needs to take more realistic account of the sexual interactions that occur between young people...

..To review evidence on factors associated with condom use among Aboriginal people and the methodological quality of studies assessing these factors...

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..We examined predictors of use of a text message system for providing support for lapses and cravings, describe the natural history of requests for support, and predictors of time to requests for support...

..To explore sex workers' accounts of condom use and their recommendations about how condoms might be improved...

..To explore young women's accounts of their use and non-use of emergency contraception...