Evaluating Consumer m-Health Services for Promoting Healthy Eating: A Randomized Field Experiment.

ABSTRACT: Mobile apps have great potential to deliver promising interventions to engage consumers and change their health-related behaviors, such as healthy eating. Currently, the interventions for promoting healthy eating are either too onerous to keep consumers engaged or too restrictive to keep consumers connected with healthcare professionals. In addition, while social media allows individuals to receive information from many sources, it is unclear how peer support interacts with professional support in the context of such interventions. This study proposes and evaluates three mobile-enabled interventions to address these challenges. We examine their effects on user engagement and food choices via a 4-month randomized field experiment. Mixed models provide strong evidence of the positive effect

SUBMITTER: Kato-Lin YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4765581 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature