Text Messages for Encouraging Physical Activity Are they effective after the novelty effect wears off?
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Many studies have found text messaging to be a promising medium for healthcare delivery. However, since the studies that successfully used text messages for encouraging physical activity were all short term (10 days to 3 weeks) and conducted with a small sample (n<15), we do not know if people will
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- Authors
- Mutsuddi, A., & Connelly, K.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mutsuddi, Adity
- ORCID
- Connelly, Kay
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 33-40
- ISSN
- 2153-1633 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2122679016
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 18
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- FWCI
- 15.28
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (publishedVersion)
- International Conference on Pervasive Computing
- Funders
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Keywords
- text messaging, physical activity, mobile health, mobile health intervention, novelty effect, long-term effectiveness, health behavior change
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