Development of macaronic Hindi-English 'Hinglish text message content for a coronary heart disease secondary prevention programme

Conclusions
Our process for customisation of a text message program considered cultural, linguistic and the medical context of potential participants. This is important in optimising intervention fidelity across populations enabling examination of the generalisability of text message programs across populations. We also demonstrated the customised program was acceptable to patients in India and that a centralised cross-country delivery model was feasible. This process could be used as a guide for other groups seeking to customise their programs.

Trial registration number
TEXTMEDS Australia (Parent study)—ACTRN 12613000793718.

Source: Heart Asia - September 29, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Thakkar, J., Karthikeyan, G., Purohit, G., Thakkar, S., Sharma, J., Verma, S., Parakh, N., Seth, S., Mishra, S., Yadav, R., Singh, S., Joshi, R., Thiagalingam, A., Chow, C. K., Redfern, J. Tags: Original research Source Type: research