Personal health technologies in employee health promotion: Usage activity, usefulness, and health-related outcomes in a 1-year randomized controlled trial

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Mattila, Elina ^a,b   Orsama, Anna Leena ^a   Ahtinen, Aino ^a   Hopsu, Leila ^c   Leino, Timo ^c   Korhonen, Ilkka ^a,b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Device; Health promotion; Health technology; Internet; Intervention; Mobile phones; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099701569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.2557     Document Type: Article

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