Effectiveness of a mHealth Lifestyle Program with Telephone Support (TXT2BFiT) to Prevent Unhealthy Weight Gain in Young Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Partridge, Stephanie R ^a   McGeechan, Kevin ^b   Hebden, Lana ^a   Balestracci, Kate ^a   Wong, Annette T Y ^a   Denney Wilson, Elizabeth ^c   Harris, Mark F ^d   Phongsavan, Philayrath ^b   Bauman, Adrian ^b   Allman Farinelli, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lifestyle behavior; Mhealth; Weight gain prevention; Young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949031549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4530     Document Type: Article

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