Application and Effect of Mobiletype-Bone Health Intervention in Korean Young Adult Women with Low Bone Mass: A Randomized Control Trial

Abstract

Although both experimental groups exhibited positive outcomes in regards to the promotion of bone health, this study did not show an additional effect of the mobile application on self-management ability for the promotion of bone health. Nonetheless, the SbFb application is very meaningful as it is the first application developed with the aim of improving women's bone health.

Mobile App-Based Health Promotion Programs: A Systematic Review of the Literature

“…A study using an app to improve bone health in young adult women with low bone mass provided achievement scores and feedback based on participants recording exercise, nutrition, and activity hours [15]. A study to prevent coronary heart disease provided four learning modules (physiology of the heart, prevalence of CHD/cardiac risk factors, information on healthy-heart lifestyles, and stress management) that allowed workers to learn within 20 min and obtain information based on three calculations (body mass index, daily caloric-intake, and 10-year CHD risk) [9].…”

“…These individuals reported higher sun-protection practices (e.g., using wide-brimmed hats) 7 weeks after the intervention compared to a control group [13]. Another study [15] provided feedback through the app about one’s osteogenic index by calculating and achievement scores for exercise, nutrition intake, and healthy living habits. Two experimental groups showed more achievement regarding knowledge of the benefits of exercise and calcium compared with the control group.…”

“…Currently, mobile phones are an important as well as a popular communication tool throughout modern society. In earlier studies, mobile apps were used for providing health education information [9,10], self-reporting [11], monitoring [10,12,13], data collection [14,15], and providing feedback [13,16] and notifications of visitation times [17]. Due to the advantage of real-time feedback, access through apps can facilitate participants in engaging in research, receiving individual education [18], generating sustained motivation through automatic sending of text messages and contact between users and health professionals [19,20], as well as ultimately changing health behaviors, as shown in a systematic review on physical activity [21].…”

Effectiveness of Integrated Technology Apps for Supporting Healthy Food Purchasing and Consumption: A Systematic Review

“…Technology-based behavioural health interventions involve the delivery of evidence-based practises via text messaging, apps, social media and multiple health components [20][21][22], through platforms such as computers, mobile phones or wearable sensors [23]. Due to rapidly growing evidence of their effectiveness and efficiency, technology-based behavioural health interventions are gaining traction as therapeutic resources, both as stand-alone technology or as multi component interventions [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. Reflecting on this trend, there are reviews on the efficacy of stand-alone technology apps intervention or multicomponent intervention on healthy lifestyles [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41], but still, the developing literature base on technology-based intervention has primarily focused on disease prevention [29,38,42,43], weight management [15,16,18,44,45] or lifestyle improvement outcomes [17,19,44,46], and in many ways has not yet explicated the important implications for a stand-alone technology intervention on healthy food purchases and healthy food consumption outcomes.…”

Obezite farkındalığı ve içgörü ölçeği: geçerlilik ve güvenirlik çalışması

“…ve depressif semptom yaşadıkları belirlenmiştir (12). Fazla kilolu bireylerin vücut ağırlık durumlarını doğru bir şekilde belirleyememesi, etkisiz kilo yönetimi ve yaşam kalitesinin olumsuz etkilenmesi açısından ciddi risk faktörleri olarak vurgulanmaktadır (13)(14)(15). Yapılan araştırmalarda hastalık farkındalığının bozulması ya da fazla kilolu/obez olduğunu kabul etmeme durumunun sağlıklı yaşam tarzı değişikliklerine bir engel olduğu, negatif klinik sonuçlara katkıda bulunduğu ve sağlık kurumuna başvuru oranları ile ilişkili olduğu gösterilmiştir (15)(16)(17).…”