↓ Skip to main content

‘TXT2BFiT’ a mobile phone-based healthy lifestyle program for preventing unhealthy weight gain in young adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in Trials, March 2013
Altmetric Badge

Mentioned by

twitter
6 X users

Citations

dimensions_citation
60 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
564 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
‘TXT2BFiT’ a mobile phone-based healthy lifestyle program for preventing unhealthy weight gain in young adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Published in
Trials, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/1745-6215-14-75
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lana Hebden, Kate Balestracci, Kevin McGeechan, Elizabeth Denney-Wilson, Mark Harris, Adrian Bauman, Margaret Allman-Farinelli

Abstract

Despite international efforts to arrest increasing rates of overweight and obesity, many population strategies have neglected young adults as a target group. Young adults are at high risk for unhealthy weight gain which tends to persist throughout adulthood with associated chronic disease health risks.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 564 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 548 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 111 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 86 15%
Researcher 72 13%
Student > Bachelor 62 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 37 7%
Other 98 17%
Unknown 98 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 128 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 91 16%
Psychology 67 12%
Social Sciences 33 6%
Sports and Recreations 23 4%
Other 90 16%
Unknown 132 23%