"Smart" RCTs: Development of a smartphone app for fully automated nutrition-labeling intervention trials

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Volkova, Ekaterina ^a   Li, Nicole ^b   Dunford, Elizabeth ^b,c   Eyles, Helen ^a   Crino, Michelle ^b   Michie, Jo ^a   Mhurchu, Cliona Ni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Nutrition labeling; Public health; Randomized controlled trial; Smartphone

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017108478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.5219     Document Type: Article

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