Motivational Text Message Intervention for Eating Disorders: A Single-Case Alternating Treatment Design Using Ecological Momentary Assessment

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 325-338

  Shingleton, Rebecca M ^a   Pratt, Elizabeth M ^a   Gorman, Bernard ^b   Barlow, David H ^a   Palfai, Tibor P ^a   Thompson Brenner, Heather ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Motivation; Technology; Text message

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; EATING DISORDER; EATING DISORDER EXAMINATION QUESTIONNAIRE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; MOTIVATION; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READINESS AND MOTIVATION QUESTIONNAIRE; TEXT MESSAGING; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY WEIGHT; ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT; FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY WEIGHT; ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TEXT MESSAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959335889     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2016.01.005     Document Type: Article

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