Push Notifications From a Mobile App to Improve the Body Composition of Overweight or Obese Women: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Technology-in particular, access to the Internet from a mobile device-has forever changed the way we relate to others and how we behave in our daily life settings. In recent years, studies have been carried out to analyze the effectiveness of different actions via mobile phone in the field of health: telephone calls, short message service (SMS), telemedicine, and, more recently, the use of push notifications. We have continued to explore ways to increase user interaction with mobile apps, one of the pending subjects in the area of mHealth. By analyzing the data produced by subjects during a clinical trial, we were able to extract behavior patterns and, according to them, design effective protocols in weight loss programs.

Objective

A clinical trial was proposed to

SUBMITTER: Hernandez-Reyes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055755 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature