Table 1 Enhanced Care text messaging matrix
Week | Theme | Type of messagea | Text message |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fast food | Response | Today at Camp NERF, your child learned about healthy fast food items. Are you in for trying healthier items at fast food restaurants? Please reply with “Yes” or “No”. |
1 | Fast food | Information | Camp NERF staff wants to help! Here is a strategy you and your child can use when choosing healthier items at fast food restaurants: Next time you or your child want to order french fries, you guys can share a medium order instead of ordering a large. Try it! |
1 | Fast food | Response | Attention all Camp NERF parents! Did you complete the Fast Food Challenge this week? Please reply with “Yes” or “No”. |
2 | Screen time | Response | Happy Tuesday Camp NERF parents! Yesterday at camp, your child learned about “screen-time” and its consequences to our health. Screen-time is the total amount of time someone spends in front of any kind of screen, whether that be a TV, computer, cell-phone, or other handheld device. Doctors recommend that children should have no more than 2 hours of screen-time each day. This week, we challenge you to limit your child to 2 hours or less of screen-time. Are you in? Please reply with “Yes” or “No”. |
2 | Screen time | Information | Camp NERF parents, did you know that too much screen-time is also related to overweight and obesity? Here is a reason why: spending too much time sitting in front of a TV or computer screen means that we are not spending enough time being physically active, preventing our body from burning enough calories to balance the calories we eat. I hope this will encourage you to help limit your child’s screen-time this week! Do not forget to add us on Facebook: just type Camp NERF in the search bar and click “join group”! |
2 | Screen time | Response | Good evening Camp NERF parents! Did you complete the Screen-Time challenge this week? Please reply with “Yes” or “No”. |
3 | Breakfast | Response | Week 6 of Camp NERF has begun and it’s all about BREAKFAST – the importance of eating breakfast every day, and the healthy food options for a perfect kick-start to our day! So far, we have learned to watch out for cereals with extra sugar and to add fresh or frozen fruits to whole-grain cereals to give our bodies a boost of energy. This week, we challenge you to simply add some fruit to you and your child’s breakfast! Whether you give them a fresh banana, cut up strawberries to add to their cereal or oatmeal, or make a breakfast smoothie with 100% fruit juice, we encourage you to BOOST their BREAKFAST! Are you in? Please reply with “Yes” or “No”. |
3 | Breakfast | Information | Happy Friday Camp NERF parents! Along with learning about breakfast this week, we also learned about calcium-rich foods that are good for building STRONG bones. Did you know that many calcium-rich foods are also perfect breakfast options? - like low-fat plain milk, low-fat yogurt, and low-fat cheese! However, we can also get calcium by eating other foods, such as spinach, almonds, eggs, oatmeal, broccoli, and sunflower seeds to name a few. Whether you get your calcium from dairy or from the other items I have listed, it is still important to get calcium every day for best bone and teeth health. Good luck with this week’s challenge! |
3 | Breakfast | Response | Good evening Camp NERF parents! Just checking in to see how this week’s BOOST your BREAKFAST Challenge went! Did you complete the challenge? Please reply with “Yes” or “No”. |