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

• DOI: 10.2196/11664
• Publication Date: 2018-12-19T14:23:21Z
• Authors: Dionne V Gootjes; Matthijs R van Dijk; Maria PH Koster; Sten P Willemsen; Eric AP Steegers; Régine PM Steeger...
• Keywords: mHealth; Health coaching

Background: In 2011, we launched the Smarter Pregnancy mobile health (mHealth) coaching program, which has shown to effectively improve inadequate nutrition and lifestyle behaviors in women before during pregnancy. It is known that deprived neighborhoods, risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes like accumulate. However, it not yet been investigated whether program equally effective living neighborhoods.