Jan 16, 2013
from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
|Where||Health Sciences Library, room 328|
|Contact Name||Heather Lewis|
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The rate of
Jan 16, 2013
from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
|Where||Health Sciences Library, room 328|
|Contact Name||Heather Lewis|
|Add event to calendar||
The rate of weight gain is highest immediately after cessation of a structured weight-loss program. Thus, effective interventions are needed that can successfully be used following a structured weight-loss program to sustain weight loss and prevent relapse. Due to low cost, ubiquity, and ease of use, healthcare communicated through mobile technology, or “mHealth”, may be able to serve as an effective medium to reach a large number of people to facilitate weight loss behaviors. Short message service (SMS) is easy to use, ubiquitous, affordable, and can target people directly where they are regardless of geographic location, socioeconomic status, or demographic factors.
Using the Behavior Change Process and regulatory focus theory, a rec