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Counselors spent less time providing feedback on participant self-monitoring data over the course of the study, decreasing from a mean of 53 minutes to 26 minutes.
Counselors can improve efficiency in providing feedback over time, which may reduce costs in technology-based weight loss interventions.
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across 12 months, counselors spent less time reviewing participant self-monitoring and composing feedback (decreasing from mean 53 to 26 minutes).
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Based on the longitudinal analysis of counselor feedback duration.
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Counselor Efficiency at Providing Feedback in a Technology-Based Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention: Longitudinal Analysis (Preprint)
Margaret C. Fahey et al. · 2020
DOI 10.2196/preprints.23974
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