Interventions employing mobile technology for overweight and obesity: An early systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 279-291

  Bacigalupo, R ^a   Cudd, P ^a   Littlewood, C ^a   Bissell, P ^a   Hawley, M S ^a   Buckley Woods, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile technology; Obesity; Overweight; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MOBILE PHONE; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; OBESITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; TELEMEDICINE; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; WEIGHT LOSS;

BODY MASS INDEX; CELLULAR PHONE; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TELEMEDICINE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84875050448     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/obr.12006     Document Type: Article

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