Electronic therapeutic contact for adolescent weight management: The Loozit® study

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 678-685

  Kornman, Kelly P ^a   Shrewsbury, Vanessa A ^a   Chou, Amy C ^a   Nguyen, Binh ^a   Lee, Anthea ^a   O'Connor, Janice ^a   Steinbeck, Katharine S ^b   Hill, Andrew J ^c   Kohn, Michael R ^d   Shah, Smita ^e   Baur, Louise A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^e SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescent; electronic contact; electronic mail; overweight; short message service

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CODING SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC CONTACT; EMAIL COMMUNICATION; OVERWEIGHT; RESPONSE PATTERNS; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; WEIGHT MANAGEMENT; Z-SCORES;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; E-MAIL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELEMEDICINE;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; DIET; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 77956146217     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2009.0180     Document Type: Article

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