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. 2021 Jun 15;5(6):e26195. doi: 10.2196/26195

Table 2.

Findings from the focus groups and youth advisory board.

Steps in the design phase Findings

Focus groups Youth advisory board
Prototype potential products
  • Built sample Instagram posts incorporating theoretical constructs

  • Wrote sample text messages prompting goal setting and providing progress feedback

  • Redeveloped website to be primarily visual and incorporate real-time data from wearable trackers

  • Developed possible study logos and study names

  • N/Aa

Gather user feedback
  • Desire for positive media; bright colors, positive wording, and encouragement versus nagging

  • Preference for personalized (vs generic) text messages, at most 1 per day

  • Preference for intervention exclusively for Latinas, with the incorporation of cultural themes and Spanish phrases

  • Preference for Chicas Fuertes study name

  • Largely positive response to all social media posts; appreciation for mix of cognitive and behavioral strategies for behavior change; and suggestions for even more bright colors, varied body types, and Spanish phrases

  • Positive response to text messages, suggestions to make them shorter, and appreciation for positive language

  • Positive response to website design and content

  • Positive response to study name and logo

  • Preference for cash incentives and identified prizes for engagement

Build minimum viable product
  • Built texting algorithm for automatic goal setting and real-time feedback based on Fitbit

  • Wrote text messages in a casual language and positive tone

  • Developed new Instagram posts with bright colors and with models with a broad array of body types and incorporated cultural themes and Spanish phrases

  • Developed Instagram posting schedule of 1 post per day, which were mapped onto theoretical constructs and BCTsb

  • Branded all study materials with the new study name and logo

  • Final schedule and content of text messages and social media posts developed and mapped onto behavior change theory constructs

  • Bank of 120 Instagram posts developed featuring bright colors, motivational quotes, specific strategies for change, and Spanish phrases

  • Website content finalized

  • Text message algorithm finalized with positive, succinct text messages

  • Prize and payment schedule finalized

aN/A: not applicable.

bBCT: behavior change technique.