Development and Pilot Testing of the Eating4two Mobile Phone App to Monitor Gestational Weight Gain

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Knight Agarwal, Catherine ^a   Davis, Deborah Lee ^a   Williams, Lauren ^b   Davey, Rachel ^a   Cox, Robert ^a   Clarke, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Intervention; Maternal obesity; Mobile phone; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975490335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4071     Document Type: Article

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