Study | Reason for exclusion |
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Mohammed[27] | No appropriate control group. |
Mahmud[33] | Text messaging intervention was delivered to community health care workers in order to improve patient-physician communication. Therefore, the study did not assess the use of SMS text messaging for promoting adherence to TB treatment in patients. |
No appropriate control group. | |
Liu[34] | The study did not report any of the outcomes of interest. |
Kao[30] | This is a descriptive study. No appropriate control group. |
Batra[31] | No appropriate control group. |
A pilot study in which text messages are bundled with video messages and is not possible to separate the effects of the text messages alone. |