Designing patient-centered text messaging interventions for increasing physical activity among participants with type 2 diabetes: Qualitative results from the text to move intervention

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Horner, Gabrielle N ^a   Agboola, Stephen ^a   Jethwani, Kamal ^a   Tan Mcgrory, Aswita ^a   Lopez, Lenny ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Exercise; Qualitative research; Text messaging; Type 2

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047124079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.6666     Document Type: Article

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