Reach and Acceptability of a Mobile Reminder Strategy and Facebook Group Intervention for Weight Management in Less Advantaged Adolescents: Insights From the PRALIMAP-INES Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although information and communication technology interventions appear to be a promising means of reducing the health inequality gap in overweight and obesity prevention, research on information and communication technology interventions is lacking outside the Anglo-Saxon world.

Objective

The aim of this study was to assess the reach and acceptability of 2 information and communication technology interventions delivered as part of a French nutritional program: an SMS text messaging (short message service, SMS) attendance-reminder for collective sessions strategy and a Facebook challenge group.

Methods

This study sample comprised 262 socially less advantaged overweight adolescents aged between 13 and 18 years. The information and communication technology int

SUBMITTER: Saez L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984273 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature