Stotz Sarah A, Lee Jung Sun, Thompson Jennifer Jo
Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, USA.
Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
Digit Health. 2021 May 5;7:20552076211014978. doi: 10.1177/20552076211014978. eCollection 2021 Jan-Dec.
The purpose of this paper is to describe a participant-driven, online text message-based social support network that emerged from an eLearning nutrition education and supplemental produce intervention.
Adults (n = 20) who utilized a safety-net clinic for their healthcare participated in a 12-week smartphone-based nutrition education eLearning program using loaned smartphones. Participants also received a box of fresh produce weekly. Participants received weekly text message reminders to collect their produce, and from this researcher-initiated reminder text, a supportive, participant-led, all-group text message thread commenced. Researchers collected all 471 text messages in this all-group thread and included them in the qualitative content analysis of pre and post intervention focus groups.
The original design of the eLearning nutrition education program was to asynchronously engage learners with nutrition education resources. However, participants themselves initiated a robust group text message support system through which they shared encouragement, recipes, grocery shopping tips, and images of food they prepared with the produce box amongst themselves for the duration of the 12-week intervention.
The novel nature by which these participants voluntarily engaged in this peer-to-peer nutrition education-focused text message conversation exemplifies participants becoming agents in their own learning experience and will be used to enhance future eLearning nutrition education experiences developed by our team.
本文旨在描述一个由参与者驱动的、基于在线短信的社会支持网络，该网络源自一个电子学习营养教育和补充农产品干预项目。
利用安全网诊所进行医疗保健的成年人（n = 20）使用租借的智能手机参加了一个为期12周的基于智能手机的营养教育电子学习项目。参与者每周还会收到一盒新鲜农产品。参与者每周会收到收集农产品的短信提醒，从这个由研究人员发起的提醒短信开始，一个由参与者主导的、支持性的全组短信线程开始了。研究人员收集了这个全组线程中的所有471条短信，并将其纳入干预前后焦点小组的定性内容分析。
电子学习营养教育项目的最初设计是让学习者异步使用营养教育资源。然而，参与者自己发起了一个强大的群组短信支持系统，在为期12周的干预期间，他们在这个系统中相互分享鼓励、食谱、杂货店购物小贴士以及他们用农产品盒子制作的食物的图片。
这些参与者自愿参与这种以同伴营养教育为重点的短信对话的新颖方式，体现了参与者成为自身学习经历的推动者，这将用于提升我们团队未来开发的电子学习营养教育体验。
