{"doi":"10.2196/35625","title":"A Text Messaging Intervention to Support Latinx Family Caregivers of Individuals With Dementia (CuidaTEXT): Development and Usability Study","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Latinx family caregivers of individuals with dementia face many barriers to caregiver support access. Interventions to alleviate these barriers are urgently needed. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe the development of CuidaTEXT, a tailored SMS text messaging intervention to support Latinx family caregivers of individuals with dementia. METHODS: CuidaTEXT is informed by the stress process framework and social cognitive theory. We developed and refined CuidaTEXT using a mixed methods approach that included thematic analysis and descriptive statistics. We followed 6 user-centered design stages, namely, the selection of design principles, software vendor collaboration, evidence-based foundation, caregiver and research and clinical advisory board guidance, sketching and prototyping, and usability testing of the prototype of CuidaTEXT among 5 Latinx caregivers. RESULTS: CuidaTEXT is a bilingual 6-month-long SMS text messaging-based intervention tailored to caregiver needs that includes 1-3 daily automatic messages (n=244) about logistics, dementia education, self-care, social support, end of life, care of the person with dementia, behavioral symptoms, and problem-solving strategies; 783 keyword-driven text messages for further help with the aforementioned topics; live chat interaction with a coach for further help; and a 19-page reference booklet summarizing the purpose and functions of the intervention. The 5 Latinx caregivers who used the prototype of CuidaTEXT scored an average of 97 out of 100 on the System Usability Scale. CONCLUSIONS: CuidaTEXT's prototype demonstrated high usability among Latinx caregivers. CuidaTEXT's feasibility is ready to be tested.","journal":"JMIR Aging","year":2022,"id":257417,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":18,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9537,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":810544,"name":"Mariola Acosta-Rullán","orcid":"0000-0003-3961-8812","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":324038,"name":"Mariana Ramírez","orcid":"0000-0001-6744-0957","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":810545,"name":"Paul Espinoza-Kissell","orcid":"0000-0003-2799-4554","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":441662,"name":"Eric D. Vidoni","orcid":"0000-0001-5181-7131","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":810546,"name":"Michelle Niedens","orcid":"0000-0001-9001-2643","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":324043,"name":"Edward F. Ellerbeck","orcid":"0000-0002-7774-2729","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":653916,"name":"Ladson Hinton","orcid":"0000-0001-6198-8540","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":810547,"name":"Linda Loera","orcid":"0000-0003-0675-8018","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":366945,"name":"A. Susana Ramírez","orcid":"0000-0002-9095-5358","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":810548,"name":"Esther Lara","orcid":"0000-0001-5621-8656","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":640104,"name":"Amber Watts","orcid":"0000-0002-8385-1091","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":441664,"name":"Kristine Williams","orcid":"0000-0003-1312-788X","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":635256,"name":"Jason Resendez","orcid":"0000-0002-7529-6593","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":68016,"name":"Jeffrey M. Burns","orcid":"0000-0001-7609-8954","position":14,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":324039,"name":"Jaime Perales‐Puchalt","orcid":"0000-0003-1013-7847","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":61,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:25:30.183987Z","pmid":"35482366","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}