MedPage Today November 4, 2024
— Randomized trial achieves a substantial impact with personalized texting, goal-based feedback
SAN ANTONIO — Infants whose families received ongoing text message-based health behavior counseling in addition to clinic-based counseling showed healthier weight trajectories than those whose families only received clinic-based counseling, according to a pragmatic, randomized trial.
Babies assigned to the digital intervention, which was started soon after birth, had a lower average weight-for-length trajectory at 24 months than those whose families received the clinic-only intervention, with a reduction of 0.33 kg/m (95% CI -0.57 to -0.09), reported Eliana Perrin, MD, MPH, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and School of Nursing in Baltimore.
Adding the digital intervention reduced incidence of obesity at 24 months by a relative...
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