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Use of Text Messaging for Monitoring Sugar-sweetened Beverages, Physical Activity, and Screen Time in Children: A Pilot Study
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Objective To examine acceptability, attrition, adherence, and preliminary efficacy of mobile phone short message service (SMS; text messaging) for monitoring healthy behaviors in children. Design All randomized children received a brief psychoeducational intervention and then either monitored target behaviors via SMS with feedback, via paper diaries (PD), or participated in a no-monitoring control (C) for 8 weeks. Setting University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospitals Participants Fifty-eight children (age 5 – 13) and parents participated; 31 completed (SMS: 13/18, PD: 7/18, C: 11/22). Intervention Children and parents participated in a total of three group education sessions (one session weekly for three weeks) to encourage increasing physical activity and decreasing screen time and sugar sweetened beverage consumption. Main Outcome Measures Treatment acceptability, attrition, and adherence to self-monitoring. Analysis Descriptive statistics and nonparametric tests were used to analyze differences across time and group. Results Children in SMS had somewhat lower attrition (28%) than both PD (61%) and C (50%), and significantly greater adherence to self-monitoring than PD (43% vs 19%, p < 0.02). Conclusions and Implications SMS may be a useful tool for self-monitoring healthy behaviors in children although the efficacy of this approach needs further study. Implications suggest that novel technologies may play a role in improving health.
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- Shapiro, J. R., Bauer, S., Hamer, R. M., Kordy, H., Ward, D., & Bulik, C. M.
- Venue
- Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-11
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 385-391
- ISSN
- 1499-4046 (ISSN-L)
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- W2066746073
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- 212
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 17.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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