Training vegetable parenting practices through a mobile game: Iterative qualitative alpha test

JMIR Serious Games

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Brand, Leah ^a   Beltran, Alicia ^a   Buday, Richard ^b   Hughes, Sheryl ^a   O'Connor, Teresia ^a   Baranowski, Janice ^a   Dadabhoy, Hafza R ^a   Diep, Cassandra S ^a   Baranowski, Tom ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Archimage Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Games for health; Mobile games; Parenting; Pediatric nutrition; Serious games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987886803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/games.4081     Document Type: Article

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