An SMS chatbot digital educational program to increase healthy eating behaviors in adolescence: A multifactorial randomized controlled trial among 7,890 participants in the Danish National Birth Cohort
Anne Ahrendt Bjerregaard,
Daniel E. Zoughbie,
Jørgen Vinsløv Hansen
et al.
Abstract:Background
Few cost-effective strategies to shift dietary habits of populations in a healthier direction have been identified. We examined if participating in a chatbot health education program transmitted by Short Messages Service (“SMS-program”) could improve adolescent dietary behaviors and body weight trajectories. We also explored possible added effects of maternal or peer involvement.
Methods and findings
We conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) among adolescents from the Danish National Birth … Show more
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