Log2Lose: Development and Lessons Learned From a Mobile Technology Weight Loss Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing financial incentives has gained popularity as a strategy to promote weight loss, but questions remain about how best to utilize them. A promising mobile health strategy provides users with near-real-time financial incentives based on both the process of weight loss (behavioral modification) and actual weight loss. To maximize the impact of this strategy, a methodology is needed to close the gap between the desired behavior and the financial incentive. Leveraging mobile health tools-such as mobile phone apps, cellular body weight scales that transmit data to physicians and researchers, and text messaging for instructions and encouragement-has the potential to close this gap.

Objective

This study aimed to describe the development of an innovative technolog

SUBMITTER: Shaw R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6391641 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature