Mobile phone short message service (SMS) for weight management in Iranian overweight and obese women: A pilot study

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Faghanipour, Somayeh ^a   Hajikazemi, Eftekharalsadat ^a   Nikpour, Soghra ^a   Shariatpanahi, Shabnam Al Sadat ^a   Hosseini, Agha Fatemeh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL GROUPS; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; INFORMATION SESSIONS; PILOT STUDIES; REGISTRATION NUMBER; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES; WEIGHT MANAGEMENT;

MEDICINE; TELEMEDICINE;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MOBILE PHONE; OBESITY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE; TEXT MESSAGING; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84885441994     PISSN: 16876415     EISSN: 16876423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/785654     Document Type: Article

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