Using facebook and text messaging to deliver a weight loss program to college students
By M. Napolitano, Sharon Hayes, G. Bennett, Allison K. Ives, G. Foster. Obesity, 2013
414 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Health
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In General Health Professions
Citations in the corpus
- The influence of social networking sites on health behavior change: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015, background): “In two studies, the comparisons were ‘life-as-usual’, involving no action from the investigators.(37,42) One study did not consider the comparison group in its analysis and only presented results for the intervention group.”
- The future of mental health care: peer-to-peer support and social media (2016, neutral): “Efforts in the general population include interventions on Facebook for weight loss (Napolitano et al. 2013) and smoking cessation (Ramo et al.”
- Are Health Behavior Change Interventions That Use Online Social Networks Effective? A Systematic Review (2014, methodology): “In general, the large-scale “live” interventions scored poorly on the risk of bias assessment (range 0.5-4 out of 25, with the exception of Brindal et al [22], which scored 16.5 out of 25), the medium-scale RCTs scored highest (range 11-19.5 out of 25), and the pilot studies scored poorly (range 4-8”