scholarly journals Results from 2016 Illinois Text Message Experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kalla
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
General Election ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
To Receive

During the 2016 general election, NextGen Climate conducted an experiment to assess whether peer-to-peer texting is effective at increasing voter turnout. NextGen Climate randomly assigned 94,257 individuals to receive a text message encouraging them to vote and 94,229 to a control group that received no outreach from NextGen Climate through Relay, the program they used for peer-to-peer texting. Individuals targeted were under 40 years old (average of 25) and had an average partisanship score of 81 (SE=15). The text messages were sent on November 5th, three days before Election Day. Overall, we find that 32.50% of the treatment group voted while 32.26% of the control group did. After adjusting for pre-treatment covariates, we find that the peer-to-peer text message increased turnout by 0.25 percentage points (p=0.20; SE=0.20).

scholarly journals Results from 2017 Virginia Text Message Experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Nigel Yan ◽  
Joshua Kalla
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
The Universe

In 2017, NextGen America conducted an experiment to evaluate whether peer-to-peer texting increases voter turnout in the Virginia gubernatorial primary. NGA randomly assigned 250,000 people to a treatment group and 125,000 people to a control group. People were contacted through Relay, a peer-to-peer texting program, during a four-day period starting on June 8th. The universe of people in the experiment are 40 or younger (average age of 30), and had an average partisanship score of 87.15 (SE=11). Overall, we found that 11.32% of the treatment group voted, while 10.73% of the control group voted. After controlling for pre-treatment covariates, we found that peer-to-peer texting increased turnout by .62 percentage points (p<.0001; SE=.001).

scholarly journals Results from 2016 Online Ad Voter Turnout Experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kalla
Keyword(s):  
New Hampshire ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
General Election ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
To Receive

During the 2016 general election, NextGen Climate conducted a 1.2 million person experiment to assess whether online advertising increases voter turnout. Across New Hampshire, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, NextGen Climate randomly assigned 1,041,952 voters to receive GOTV online ads while the remaining 195,368 were randomly assigned to a control group. Overall, we find that the ads likely caused a small, marginally significant increase in voter turnout of 0.14 percentage points (p=0.15).

scholarly journals Reducing Missed Appointments for Probation and Parole Supervision: a Randomized Experiment with Text Message Reminders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charise Hastings ◽  
Chris Thomas ◽  
Michael Ostermann ◽  
Jordan M. Hyatt ◽  
Steve Payne
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Test Sample ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Missed Appointments ◽  
Appointment Attendance ◽  
Technical Violations

Abstract Research Question Can text message reminders reduce missed appointments with probation or parole officers by clients under community supervision? Data In collaboration with Arkansas Community Corrections (ACC), 4,000 clients under community supervision were selected and tracked for attendance at scheduled supervision meetings from October 1, 2018, through April 15, 2019, with a test sample of 3,470 clients scheduled to attend 14,135 appointments assigned at random to different conditions of appointment reminders. Methods Marquis Software, under contract to ACC, randomly assigned the test sample to one of four conditions of text messages generated by company software: control (no text messages before appointments), early text (2 days before the appointment), late text (1 day before the appointment), and two texts (both 1 day and 4 days before the appointment). Marquis then abstracted the records of appointment attendance by treatment group, for analysis by the academic co-authors. Findings During the 6-month experiment, the best attendance was found in the treatment group assigned to late text reminders 1 day before the appointment. That group had 29% fewer no-shows and 21% fewer cancelled appointments than the control group during the experiment. In a subsequent rollout of the late text treatment to all of the clients still under supervision, the entire remaining group had 30% fewer missed appointments compared to the control group during the experiment. Conclusions Text messages reminding clients to attend parole and probation officer meetings can reduce missed appointments, with potentially substantial reductions in imprisonment due to technical violations of community supervision conditions.

scholarly journals Testing behavioral interventions designed to improve on-time SNAP recertification

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard M. Lopoo ◽  
Colleen Heflin ◽  
Joseph Boskovski
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Hennepin County ◽  
Different Levels

We report results from a series of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) run between January 2019 and February 2020 testing behavioral interventions designed to increase the likelihood that SNAP recipients recertify on-time in Hennepin County, the most populous county in Minnesota. Given the different levels of governance and the abundance of qualifying rules and processes that low-income households must negotiate to obtain and retain SNAP food assistance benefits, many households may fail to recertify for SNAP. Administrative burden includes the difficulties created by having to learn deadlines and which forms constitute the proper paperwork necessary to recertify. In our main intervention, we test a three-armed study (n=23,756), comparing the efficacy of the Hennepin County SNAP recertification auto-dialer communication, a behaviorally-informed text message, and a third arm with both the Hennepin county autodialer and our text message, against a control group that did not receive any reminder at the beginning of the recertification month but did receive other standard written communications. Results from this trial show that the autodialer is not an effective reminder. However, the interventions with text messages are effective in improving recertification rates around five percent (p<0.01) over no additional message and around two percentage points (p<0.05) over the Hennepin County autodialer message currently being used. Text messaging appears to be particularly effective for SNAP recipients under the age of 60 with low to moderate levels of education.

scholarly journals Piloting the Effectiveness of a Text Messaging and Fitness Tracking Intervention within Older Black Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 787-787
Author(s):  
Olivio Clay ◽  
Veronica Mixon ◽  
William Opoku-Agyeman ◽  
Meneka Johnson Nicholson ◽  
Pamela Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Text Message ◽  
College Education ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Medium Effect ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Group Reduction

Abstract Physical activity (PA) can help lower risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes, reduce anxiety, and reduce risk of Alzheimer’s and other related dementias. Despite these benefits, older, obese Black women are not meeting CDC recommended PA guidelines at disproportionate rates. This study aims to identify whether a targeted intervention, Texting Older Sisters to Step (T.O.S.S.), can improve health-related outcomes within older Black women. A sample of 24 Black women (12 per group) age 60 and older who had a BMI &gt; 30 were recruited. The treatment group received text messages previously validated to promote physical activity every day for 12-weeks and were placed in Fitbit communities. The control group received a general health or nutrition-related text message every Sunday. Participants ranged from 60 to 70 years of age with a mean of 64 and 90% had at least some college education. Overall, there was a significant reduction of 1.53 inches in waist circumference, p &lt; .01. When the groups were compared, the treatment group showed a 2.16 inch reduction compared to a 0.91 inch reduction in the control group (Cohen’s d=0.54, a medium effect size). Similarly, the treatment group lost 2.50 pounds on average compared to 1.33 in the control group (d=0.23). When the groups were compared on HgA1c, the treatment group was stable with a reduction of 0.01 unit whereas the control group reduction was 0.15 unit (d=0.23). Findings provide initial support for the T.O.S.S. intervention and suggest a modification of including nutrition information among the intervention messages.

A Pilot Study of Mobile Telephone Message Interventions with Suicide Attempters in China

Crisis ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Chen ◽  
Brian L. Mishara ◽  
Xiao Xian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Quick Method ◽  
Suicide Attempters ◽  
To Receive

Background: In China, where follow-up with hospitalized attempters is generally lacking, there is a great need for inexpensive and effective means of maintaining contact and decreasing recidivism. Aims: Our objective was to test whether mobile telephone message contacts after discharge would be feasible and acceptable to suicide attempters in China. Methods: Fifteen participants were recruited from suicide attempters seen in the Emergency Department in Wuhan, China, to participate in a pilot study to receive mobile telephone messages after discharge. All participants have access to a mobile telephone, and there is no charge for the user to receive text messages. Results: Most participants (12) considered the text message contacts an acceptable and useful form of help and would like to continue to receive them for a longer period of time. Conclusions: This suggests that, as a low-cost and quick method of intervention in areas where more intensive follow-up is not practical or available, telephone messages contacts are accessible, feasible, and acceptable to suicide attempters. We hope that this will inspire future research on regular and long-term message interventions to prevent recidivism in suicide attempters.

Dropout Prevention for Youth with Disabilities: Efficacy of a Sustained School Engagement Procedure

1998 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary F. Sinclair ◽  
Sandra L. Christenson ◽  
David L. Evelo ◽  
Christine M. Hurley
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Dropout Prevention ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Behavioral Disabilities ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Youth With Disabilities ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
And Control ◽  
To Receive

The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of a sustained dropout prevention procedure that incorporated monitoring and school engagement strategies. Ninety-four students with learning and emotional/behavioral disabilities received interventions in Grades 7 and 8; half of the students (treatment group) continued to receive intervention through Grade 9. Results of this experimental study indicated that, for two of three measures, students in the treatment group were significantly more likely to be engaged in school than were control group students. The overall performance of both treatment and control students, however, points to the need for early and sustained support for students with learning and behavioral disabilities to attain academic and behavioral standards.

Microcommitments: The Effect of Small Commitments on Student Success

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 92-96
Author(s):  
Amanda J. Felkey ◽  
Eva Dziadula ◽  
Eric P. Chiang ◽  
Jose Vazquez
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Randomized Control Trial ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Social Accountability ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Hybrid Classes ◽  
Course Material ◽  
Randomized Control

We conducted a randomized control trial with nearly 1,000 students to test whether using a text-message-based tool that provides small commitments with social accountability helps students procrastinate less and maintain engagement with course material, yielding improved academic performance. All students received identical content via text message, but the treatment group engaged with an online platform encouraging commitments and featuring a social feed with rankings. The analysis reveals that microcommitments with social accountability improved academic performance relative to students who received simple nudges. The increase is equivalent to 3 percentage points on an exam, driven by online and hybrid classes.

Text Message Reminders for Child Influenza Vaccination in the Setting of School-Located Influenza Vaccination: A Randomized Clinical Trial

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Szilagyi ◽  
Stanley Schaffer ◽  
Cynthia M. Rand ◽  
Nicolas P. N. Goldstein ◽  
Mary Younge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Urban Elementary Schools ◽  
Vaccination Rates ◽  
Flu Vaccination ◽  
Percentage Points

Half of US school children receive influenza vaccine. In our previous trials, school-located influenza vaccination (SLIV) raised vaccination rates by 5 to 8 percentage points. We assessed whether text message reminders to parents could raise vaccination rates above those observed with SLIV. Within urban elementary schools we randomized families into text message + SLIV (intervention) versus SLIV alone (comparison). All parents were sent 2 backpack notifications plus 2 autodialer phone reminders about SLIV at a single SLIV clinic. Intervention group parents also were sent 3 text messages from the school nurse encouraging flu vaccination via either primary care or SLIV. Among 15 768 children at 32 schools, vaccination rates were text + SLIV (40%) and SLIV control (40%); 4% of students per group received influenza vaccination at SLIV. Text message reminders did not raise influenza vaccination rates above those observed with SLIV alone. More intensive interventions are needed to raise influenza vaccination rates.

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