SMStopCorona: A sending text messaging (SMS) app to coping COVID-19

Timóteo Matthies Rico; Estela Fernandes e Silva; Beatriz Farias Vogt; Alessandra Notari; Cristiane Paviani; Danise Senna Oliveira; Susana Cecagno; Adriana Coutinho

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SMStopCorona: A sending text messaging (SMS) app to coping COVID-19

Timóteo Matthies Rico

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Estela Fernandes e Silva

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Beatriz Farias Vogt

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Alessandra Notari

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Cristiane Paviani

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Danise Senna Oliveira

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Susana Cecagno

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Adriana Coutinho

¹ Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense (IFSul) - Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil
² Doctor in Physiological Sciences by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG, Rio Grande (Rio Grande do Sul), Brasil
³ Hospital Escola da Universidade Federal de Pelotas (HE/UFPel/EBSERH)

Published: 27 July 2020 by MDPI in MOL2NET'20, Conference on Molecular, Biomed., Comput. & Network Science and Engineering, 6th ed. congress BIOMEDIT-01; ITCs & Biomol. Biomed. Eng. Workshop, Lund, Sweden, Chengdu, China, New Orleans, USA, 2020

https://doi.org/10.3390/mol2net-06-06888 (registering DOI)

Abstract:

Besides COVID-19 can severely affect the health of those infected, this pandemic is also causing several problems in society, such as economic and psychological issues. Thus, preventing new cases is important to minimized these problems. This work developing an app (SMStopCorona) that sending text messages (Short Message Service – SMS) in automated and tailored way, with guidance about prevention and general health tips, aiming to welcome the population about coping pandemic. A multidisciplinary team from Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense (IFSul) and Hospital Escola/Universidade Federal de Pelotas (HE/UFPel) prepared the messagens to be sent and registered it in the app. About 500 people from the southern region of Brazil signed up to receive these messages, and then they were imported into the app. SMStopCorona then automatically sends a daily orientation to each person registered via SMS. Preliminary results indicated good acceptance in receiving these messages by registered people. Several people responded to the messages received, thanking for the care and guidance they had received via SMS text message.

Keywords: mobile health; text message; COVID-19; short message service; supportive care

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