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Informing active play and screen time Behaviour change interventions for low socioeconomic position mothers of young children: What do mothers want?
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posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00 authored by Katherine DowningKatherine Downing, Keren Best, Karen CampbellKaren Campbell, Kylie HeskethKylie HeskethIntroduction. This study investigated views of mothers from disadvantaged urban and regional areas (i.e., beyond major capital cities) as potential end users of child active play and screen time behaviour change interventions, with a focus on text messaging and web-based delivery platforms. Methods. Thirty-two mothers (22 urban; 10 regional) were interviewed. Purpose-designed questions covered topics regarding mothers’ preferences for accessing and receiving information related to parenting and child active play and screen time. Data from transcribed interviews were analysed to identify responses and key themes. Results. Mothers reported frequently accessing parenting- and child-related information online. Regional mothers reported seeking information by talking with other people less frequently than urban mothers and seemed to have a stronger preference for receiving information online. There were few differences between responses from low and high educated mothers. The majority of mothers reported that they would be happy to receive text messages containing information about active play and screen time and that they would find a dedicated website with this information useful. Conclusions. Mothers in this study held favourable views on the potential of receiving information via new communication technologies. Future interventions targeting socioeconomically disadvantaged mothers may benefit from delivering intervention messages via these technologies.
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BioMed Research InternationalVolume
2016Article number
ARTN 2139782Publisher
HINDAWI LTDLocation
United StatesPublisher DOI
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2314-6133eISSN
2314-6141Language
EnglishPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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