Randomized trial of a smartphone mobile application compared to text messaging to support smoking cessation.

Background: Text messaging has successfully supported smoking cessation. This study compares a mobile application with text messaging to support smoking cessation.

Materials And Methods: Young adult smokers 18-30 years old (n = 102) participated in a randomized pretest-posttest trial.

Randomized trial on the 5 a day, the Rio Grande Way Website, a web-based program to improve fruit and vegetable consumption in rural communities.

The Internet is a new technology for health communication in communities. The 5 a Day, the Rio Grande Way website intended to increase fruits and vegetables (FV) consumption was evaluated in a rural region enrolling 755 adults (65% Hispanic, 9% Native American, 88% female) in a randomized pretest-posttest controlled trial in 2002-2004. A total of 473 (63%) adults completed a 4-month follow-up.

Integrating Usability Testing into the Development of a 5 a Day Nutrition Website for At-risk Populations in the American Southwest.

The following article documents an iterative, user-oriented process to develop a nutrition education website for a rural multicultural population. Study participants were purposefully recruited from a six-county region in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico representing the range of ethnic backgrounds, demographics and computer experience of the site's target audience. Three studies are presented.