Preferred tone of nutrition text messages for young adults: Focus group testing

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Pollard, Christina Mary ^a,b   Howat, Peter A ^a   Pratt, Iain S ^a,c   Boushey, Carol J ^d,e   Delp, Edward J ^e   Kerr, Deborah Anne ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Health ^*  (Australia)

^c Cancer Council Western Australia   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Communication; Fruit; Junk food; Nutrition messages; Text messages; Tone of voice; Vegetable

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963792920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4764     Document Type: Article

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