Development of a Theoretically Driven mHealth Text Messaging Application for Sustaining Recent Weight Loss
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Development of a Theoretically Driven mHealth Text Messaging Application for Sustaining Recent Weight Loss
BACKGROUND Mobile phone short message service (SMS) text messaging, has the potential to serve as an intervention medium to promote sustainability of weight loss that can be easily and affordably used by clinicians and consumers. OBJECTIVE To develop theoretically driven weight loss sustaining text messages and pilot an mHealth SMS text messaging intervention to promote sustaining recent weig...
متن کاملComparison of strategies for sustaining weight loss: the weight loss maintenance randomized controlled trial.
CONTEXT Behavioral weight loss interventions achieve short-term success, but re-gain is common. OBJECTIVE To compare 2 weight loss maintenance interventions with a self-directed control group. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Two-phase trial in which 1032 overweight or obese adults (38% African American, 63% women) with hypertension, dyslipidemia, or both who had lost at least 4 kg during ...
متن کاملA theoretically grounded systematic review of material incentives for weight loss: implications for interventions.
BACKGROUND Providing material incentives for weight loss is a class of intervention strategies that has received considerable attention; however, the effectiveness of this class of strategies is uncertain. Attending to distinctions among incentive strategies may clarify our understanding of prior work and inform the design of future interventions. PURPOSE A theoretical framework is proposed t...
متن کاملA longitudinal study of children's text messaging and literacy development.
Recent studies have shown evidence of positive concurrent relationships between children's use of text message abbreviations ('textisms') and performance on standardized assessments of reading and spelling. This study aimed to determine the direction of this association. One hundred and nineteen children aged between 8 and 12 years were assessed on measures of general ability, reading, spelling...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JMIR mhealth and uhealth
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2291-5222
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.2343