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A healthy lifestyle text message intervention for adolescents: protocol for the Health4Me randomized controlled trial.

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Adolescence presents a window of opportunity to establish good nutrition and physical activity behaviours to carry throughout the life course. Adolescents are at risk of developing cardiovascular and other chronic diseases due to poor the complex interplay of physical and mental health lifestyle risk factors. Text messaging is adolescents main form of everyday communication and text message programs offer a potential solution for support and improvement of lifestyle health behaviours. The primary aim of this study is to determine effectiveness of the Health4Me text message program to improve adolescent's physical activity or nutrition behaviours among adolescents over 6-months, compared to usual care.

Year of Publication
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2022
Journal
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BMC public health
Volume
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22
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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1805
Date Published
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2022
URL
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https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-14183-9
DOI
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10.1186/s12889-022-14183-9
Short Title
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BMC Public Health
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