Rural eHealth nutrition education for limited-income families: an iterative and user-centered design approach

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Atkinson, Nancy L ^a   Saperstein, Sandra L ^a   Desmond, Sharon M ^a   Gold, Robert S ^a   Billing, Amy S ^b   Tian, Jing ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Nutrition management; Obesity; Qualitative research; Rural health; Website design

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COOKING; EDUCATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INCOME; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; COMPUTER USER TRAINING; COOKERY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POVERTY; RESEARCH DESIGN; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 70350435970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1148     Document Type: Article

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