Lay health supporters aided by mobile text messaging to improve adherence, symptoms, and functioning among people with schizophrenia in a resource-poor community in rural China (LEAN): A randomized controlled trial.

<h4>Background</h4>Schizophrenia is a leading cause of disability, and a shift from facility- to community-based care has been proposed to meet the resource challenges of mental healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. We hypothesized that the addition of mobile texting would impr...

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Main Authors: Dong Roman Xu, Shuiyuan Xiao, Hua He, Eric D Caine, Stephen Gloyd, Jane Simoni, James P Hughes, Juan Nie, Meijuan Lin, Wenjun He, Yeqing Yuan, Wenjie Gong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-04-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002785