Developing Components of an Integrated mHealth Dietary Intervention for Mexican Immigrant Farmworkers: Feasibility Usability Study of a Food Photography Protocol for Dietary Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rural-urban disparities in access to health services and the burden of diet-related noncommunicable diseases are exacerbated among Mexican immigrant farmworkers due to work demands, social and geographical isolation, literacy issues, and limited access to culturally and language-competent health services. Although mobile health (mHealth) tools have the potential to overcome structural barriers to health services access, efficacious mHealth interventions to promote healthy eating have not considered issues of low literacy and health literacy, and food preferences and norms in the Mexican immigrant farmworker population. To address this critical gap, we conducted a series of preliminary studies among Mexican immigrant farmworkers with the long-term goal of developing a cul

SUBMITTER: Fernandez ID 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11681282 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature