A meta-analysis of computer-tailored interventions for health behavior change

Krebs, Paul; Prochaska, James O.; Rossi, Joseph S.

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2010.06.004

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“…This is a diverse field with programmes targeting several areas of lifestyle including diet and obesity. Promising findings have been reported from many interventions (80) .…”

Section: Health Promotionmentioning

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Strategic nutrition: a vision for the twenty-first century

Temple

2015

Public Health Nutr.

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It is now widely accepted that poor nutrition plays a major role in the epidemic of various diseases, including obesity, type 2 diabetes and CVD. There has also been much research regarding the role of related factors such as advertising and food prices. Many intervention studies have been carried out where attempts have been made to persuade people to modify their behaviour, such as by making dietary changes, in order to enhance health (health promotion). There has also been much debate on the potential of government policy as a tool for achieving these goals. Various proposals have been made, such as a tax on sugary drinks, the redirection of food subsidies and how the salt content of food can be reduced. However, the great majority of previous papers have considered only single aspects of the topics discussed here. The present paper reviews strategies for improving public health, both health promotion interventions and the use of government policy approaches. Topics discussed include providing advice for the general population and the design of food guides and food labels. This leads to the conclusion that we need an overall strategy that integrates this diverse body of information and formulates a comprehensive action plan. I propose the term 'strategic nutrition'. The implementation of this plan opens up a path to a major advance in public health.

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“…This is a diverse field with programmes targeting several areas of lifestyle including diet and obesity. Promising findings have been reported from many interventions (80) .…”

Section: Health Promotionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Strategic nutrition: a vision for the twenty-first century

Temple

2015

Public Health Nutr.

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“…This could result in the inability to thoroughly identify what they want from a design, how and when they will use it, what makes them want to use it, etc. There is strong evidence that behavioural change needs to be tailored to match an individual's needs and characteristics in order to be effective and sustainable [124,125]. Furthermore, by providing specific target end-users from the beginning, relevant stakeholders could be identified and potentially involved.…”

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Managing obesity through mobile phone applications: a state-of-the-art review from a user-centred design perspective

Hermawati

Lawson

2014

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Hermawati, Setia and Lawson, Glyn (2014) Managing obesity through mobile phone applications: a state-ofthe-art review from a user-centred design perspective. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 18 (8). pp. 2003-2023. ISSN 1617 Access from the University of Nottingham repository: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34793/1/Managing%20obesity%20through%20mobile %20phone%20applications.pdf Copyright and reuse:The Nottingham ePrints service makes this work by researchers of the University of Nottingham available open access under the following conditions. This article is made available under the University of Nottingham End User licence and may be reused according to the conditions of the licence. For more details see: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/end_user_agreement.pdf A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. Evidence has shown that the trend of increasing obesity rates has continued in the last decade. Mobile phone applications, benefiting from their ubiquity, have been increasingly used to address this issue. In order to increase the applications' acceptance and success, a design and development process that focuses on users, such as User-Centred Design, is necessary. This paper reviews reported studies that concern the design and development of mobile phone applications to prevent obesity, and analyses them from a User-Centred Design perspective. Based on the review results, strengths and weaknesses of the existing studies were identified. Identified strengths included: evidence of the inclusion of multidisciplinary skills and perspectives; user involvement in studies; and the adoption of iterative design practices. Weaknesses included the lack of specificity in the selection of end-users and inconsistent evaluation protocols. The review was concluded by outlining issues and research areas that need to be addressed in the future, including: greater understanding of the effectiveness of sharing data between peers; privacy; and guidelines for designing for behavioural change through mobile phone applications. Keywords: obesity, user-centred design, mobile phone, ubiquitousRecent evidence shows that the worldwide obesity rate is increasing and has more than doubled since 1980 [1]. The latest data from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that more than one third of US adults were obese, with adults aged 60 and over more likely to be obese than younger adults [2]. Similar trends have been reported in Europe, where between 30% and 80% of adults are obese with higher prevalence of obesity among men than women [3]. Obesity and being overweight have considerable effects on morbidity and mortality through various diseases such as type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndrome [3]. Obesity yields neg...

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“…Behaviour change and prevention research demonstrates the benefit of tailoring interventions to individual users through, for example, assessing user preferences and characteristics, and computer-tailoring (e.g., Krebs, Prochaska, & Rossi, 2010). However, the intervention content preferred by mothers may not be meeting intervention preferences of their own daughters.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%