Crafting Appealing Text Messages to Encourage Colorectal Cancer Screening Test Completion: A Qualitative Study.

Background: mHealth interventions that incorporate text messages have great potential to increase receipt of preventive health services such as colorectal cancer screening. However, little is known about older adult perspectives regarding the receipt of text messages from their health care providers.

Objective: To assess whether older adults would value and access text messages from their physician's practice regarding colorectal cancer screening.

Measuring medical student attitudes and beliefs regarding patients who are obese.

Purpose: Research shows obesity bias to undermine the patient-doctor relationship and lead to substandard care. The authors developed and tested an instrument to measure medical students' attitudes and beliefs about obese patients.

Method: The authors conducted a literature search to identify validated measures of obesity bias.