Published on in Vol 7 (2023)

This is a member publication of The University of Edinburgh, Usher Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/33810, first published .
A Culturally Adapted Diet and Physical Activity Text Message Intervention to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for Women of Pakistani Origin Living in Scotland: Formative Study

A Culturally Adapted Diet and Physical Activity Text Message Intervention to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for Women of Pakistani Origin Living in Scotland: Formative Study

A Culturally Adapted Diet and Physical Activity Text Message Intervention to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for Women of Pakistani Origin Living in Scotland: Formative Study

Marta Krasuska   1 * , PhD ;   Emma M Davidson   2 * , MBChB, MPH ;   Erik Beune   3 , MSc, PhD ;   Anne Karen Jenum   4 , MBChB, PhD ;   Jason MR Gill   5 , PhD ;   Karien Stronks   3 , PhD ;   Irene GM van Valkengoed   3 , PhD ;   Esperanza Diaz   6 , MD, PhD ;   Aziz Sheikh   1 , BSc, MBBS, MSc, MD

1 Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

4 General Practice Research Unit (AFE), Department of General Practice, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

5 Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

6 Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

*these authors contributed equally

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