Obesity and outpatient rehabilitation using mobile technologies: The potential mHealth approach

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Castelnuovo, Gianluca ^a,b   Manzoni, Gian Mauro ^b,c   Pietrabissa, Giada ^a,b   Corti, Stefania ^b,d   Giusti, Emanuele Maria ^a   Molinari, Enrico ^a,b   Simpson, Susan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^c ECAMPUS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical psychology; Health psychology; MHealth; Obesity; psychotherapy; Rehabilitation; Telecare; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925457040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00559     Document Type: Article

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