Neighborhood Deprivation and the Effectiveness of Mobile Health Coaching to Improve Periconceptional Nutrition and Lifestyle in Women: Survey in a Large Urban Municipality in the Netherlands.
Dionne V GootjesMatthijs R Van DijkMaria P H KosterSten Paul WillemsenEric A P SteegersRégine Patricia Maria Steegers-TheunissenPublished in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2019)
The Smarter Pregnancy mHealth coaching program empowers women to improve inadequate nutrition and lifestyle behaviors. Unexpectedly, the program seemed more effective in women living in deprived neighborhoods. It is important to unravel differences in needs and behaviors of specific target groups to further tailor the mHealth program on the basis of demographic characteristics like neighborhood deprivation.