Leveraging Technology and Theory to Change Health Behaviors, Close Gaps in Health-Related Social Needs, and Increase Enrollment in the National Diabetes Prevention Program

Interactive, theoretically driven tailored text messaging represents a promising approach to increasing awareness of prediabetes risk, readiness to enroll in the National DPP LCP, participant engagement, and health behavior change. Providing links to existing geographically matched community resources reduced health-related social needs that can present barriers to participating in the National DPP LCP. The results also provide insights to inform the design and development of other population-based tailored text-delivered interventions.