App-Based Salt Reduction Intervention in School Children and Their Families (AppSalt) in China: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Process Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The app-based salt reduction intervention program in school children and their families (AppSalt) is a multicomponent mobile health (mHealth) intervention program, which involves multiple stakeholders, including students, parents, teachers, school heads, and local health and education authorities. The complexity of the AppSalt program highlights the need for process evaluation to investigate how the implementation will be achieved at different sites.

Objective

This paper presents a process evaluation protocol of the AppSalt program, which aims to monitor the implementation of the program, explain its causal mechanisms, and provide evidence for scaling up the program nationwide.

Methods

A mixed methods approach will be used to collect data relating to five p

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7904395 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature