How an online intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain is used and by whom: a randomized controlled process evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Online interventions have emerged as a popular strategy to promote healthy behaviors. Currently, there is little agreement about how to capture online intervention engagement. It is also uncertain who engages with weight-related online interventions and how engagement differs by demographic and weight characteristics.

Objective

The objectives of this study were to (1) characterize how pregnant women engaged with features of an online intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain, (2) identify demographic and weight status subgroups of women within the sample, and (3) examine differences in use of intervention features across the demographic and weight status subgroups.

Methods

A sample of racially and socioeconomically diverse pregnant women fro

SUBMITTER: Demment MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4156016 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature