Harsha Thirumurthy
About Harsha Thirumurthy
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Academic
- Economist
Organization
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- World Bank
Work Location(s)
- United States
Language(s)
- English
- Swahili
- Tamil
Harsha's Communities
Recent Contributions
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Harsha Thirumurthy replied to "RCT from Kenya showing that weekly SMS improves adherence to ART" in the [ARCHIVED] Adherence & Retention community.
Alex, Thanks for your link to the articles on alert fatigue. I think fatigue or habituation may well be the explanation for the low efficacy of the daily reminders. Our study did was not designed to test the optimal frequency of reminders, but it certainly appears that somewhat less frequent ...
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Harsha Thirumurthy replied to "Cell phone intervention improves ART adherence and HIV suppression: RCT" in the [ARCHIVED] Adherence & Retention community.
Richard, Thanks for initiating this discussion on mHealth based adherence interventions. The study in Nairobi seems very promising. My colleagues and I recently completed an RCT of SMS reminders among patients initiating ART at a clinic in Nyanza Province, Kenya. We enrolled 720 patients and followed them for periods ranging ...
Recent Recommendations
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