Bio:Rita Barbieri is a registered dietitian and has worked with Dietitians of Canada with EatRight Ontario. She has over 14 years experience in public health and has worked as both an inpatient and outpatient dietitian and was faculty at George Brown College. Rita graduated form University of Guelph with honours. She lives and works in Toronto.
In healthy adults and adults with chronic disease, what is the impact on health behaviour change of telehealth interventions (i.e. telephone, Internet/web-based, email, text messaging, mobile applications) delivered by health care providers compared with usual care? Are telehealth interventions cost-effective?
Role: Reviewer
Is telephone nutrition counselling delivered by dietitians effective for improving health behaviour and clinical outcomes in healthy adults and adults with chronic disease?
What are the characteristics of effective telehealth interventions (including telephone counselling and Internet-delivered) to achieve health behaviour change in adults (i.e. intensity, duration, type of clients, characteristics of providers)?
Are telephone interventions delivered by peers effective in achieving health behaviour change?
How effective are telephone interventions for improving nutrition outcomes in infants and new mothers (e.g. breastfeeding support, infant complementary feeding)?
How effective is call centre support for public health nutrition interventions and government policy implementation (e.g. school health, food safety, reducing trans fats or sodium, increasing fruit and vegetable consumption)?
Telehealth/Teledietetics Background
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