Preferred Tone of Nutrition Text Messages for Young Adults: Focus Group Testing

Christina Mary Pollard   ^{1, 2 *} , BAppSc,Grad Dip Diet,MPH,PhD ;   Peter A Howat   ^{1 *} , MS,PhD ;   Iain S Pratt   ^{3, 4 *} , Grad Dip Diet ;   Carol J Boushey   ^{5, 6 *} , BSc,MPH,PhD ;   Edward J Delp   ^{7 *} , PhD ;   Deborah Anne Kerr   ^{1 *} , BAppSc,Grad Dip Diet,MSc,PhD

¹ Curtin University, School of Public Health, Bentley, Australia

² Department of Health, Western Australia, Perth, Australia

³ Cancer Council Western Australia, Perth, Australia

⁴ Curtin University, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Perth, Australia

⁵ University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Epidemiology Program, Honolulu, HI, United States

⁶ Purdue University, Department of Nutrition Science, West Lafayatte, IN, United States

⁷ Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States

*all authors contributed equally