Louis J Gross, Rachel Patton McCord, Sondra LoRe, Vitaly V Ganusov, Tian Hong, W Christopher Strickland, David Talmy, Albrecht G von Arnim, Greg Wiggins
Prioritization of the concepts and skills in quantitative education for graduate students in biomedical science
PloS one
emerging evidence suggests addition text messages standard healthy lifestyle interventions may improve outcomes diabetes prevention programs dpp paper describes process developing text messages targeting behavior change people risk developing diabetes lowresourced communities part south african dpp sadpp development comprised multiple steps led nutrition physical activity experts steps included following 1 text message development based existing sadpp curriculum formative research 2 text message evaluation readabilityunderstandability terms content language quality 75 participants two lowresourced areas cape town 3 text message refinement expert panel 4 evaluation refined text messages participants step 2 5 text bank finalization based readability survey 37 67 formulated text messages 24 44 encouraged healthy eating 13 23 promoted physical activity refined based focused discussions participants seven messages refined consider alternative terminology final text bank includes total 67 messages comprising topics related fruit vegetable consumption well importance variety diet n 15 limiting fat intake n 10 avoiding sugar n 11 avoiding salt n 5 promoting fiberrich foods n 1 messages promoting physical activity n 21 general checkin messages n 4 text messages acceptable understandable largely feasible participants nutritionrelated messages less feasible participants due socioeconomic position next step assess text messages sadpp intervention trial