Effectiveness of mobile health (mHealth) interventions for promoting healthy eating in adults: A systematic review

McCARROLL, R. S.; Eyles, Helen; Mhurchú, Cliona Ní

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.08.022

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“…mHeath interventions to encourage physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior have shown only small to moderate effects (Direito, Carraca, Rawstorn, Whittaker, & Maddison, 2017). Similarly, mHealth interventions for weight management and healthy eating, including for specific medical indications such as diabetes, have shown only modest effects, suggesting that further innovation and optimization of these interventions are needed (McCarroll, Eyles, & Mhurchu, 2017;Wang, Xue, Huang, Huang, & Zhang, 2017). mHealth programs to facilitate self-management for a range of diseases also have shown modest and mixed effects to date.…”

Section: Mhealth and Sensor Assessment And Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

National Institutes of Health Support of Digital Health Behavior Research

Riley

Aklin

et al. 2019

Health Educ Behav

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has increasingly supported research in digital health technologies to advance research and deliver behavior change interventions. We highlight some of the research supported by the NIH in eHealth, mHealth, and social media as well as research resources supported by the NIH to accelerate research in this area. We also describe some of the challenges and opportunities in the digital health field and the need to balance the promise of these technologies with rigorous scientific evidence.

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Section: Mhealth and Sensor Assessment And Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

National Institutes of Health Support of Digital Health Behavior Research

Riley

Aklin

et al. 2019

Health Educ Behav

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“…It is an amalgamation of a number of other terms, such as e-health, mHealth, and mobile health, and describes how health services can be delivered via non face-to-face means [ 27 ]. Telehealth tools have been shown to be effective in a number of different settings and for a number of different public health issues [ 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 ]. Social media in particular has a number of features that could support the public health role of pharmacists.…”

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A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials of Telehealth and Digital Technology Use by Community Pharmacists to Improve Public Health

Crilly

Kayyali

2020

Pharmacy

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Community pharmacists (CPs) continue to have an important role in improving public health, however, advances in telehealth and digital technology mean that the methods by which they support their customers and patients are changing. The primary aim of this study was to identify which telehealth and digital technology tools are used by CPs for public health purposes and determine if these have a positive impact on public health outcomes. A systematic review was carried out using databases including PubMed and ScienceDirect, covering a time period from April 2005 until April 2020. The search criteria were the following: randomized controlled trials, published in English, investigating the delivery of public health services by community pharmacists using a telehealth or digital tool. Thirteen studies were included out of 719 initially identified. Nine studies detailed the use of telephone prompts or calls, one study detailed the use of a mobile health application, two studies detailed the use of a remote monitoring device, and one study detailed the use of photo-aging software. Public health topics that were addressed included vaccination uptake (n = 2), smoking cessation (n = 1), hypertension management (n = 2), and medication adherence and counseling (n = 8). More studies are needed to demonstrate whether or not the use of novel technology by CPs can improve public health.

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“…As a result of these developments, a series of barcode scanning mobile Health (mHealth) applications have been developed with the intent to display support healthy food choices, for example by displaying FoPL in absence of such regulation [6,9,31]. These apps are seen as an inclusive and scalable support system for healthy food [7].…”

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Impact of Mixed Reality Food Labels on Product Selection

Fuchs

Grundmann

Haldimann

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management

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The rise in diet-related non-communicable diseases suggests that consumers find it difficult to make healthy food-related purchases. This situation is most pertinent in fast-paced retail environments where customers are confronted with sugar-rich or savory food items. Countermeasures such as front-of-package labelling are not yet mandated in most regions, and barcode scanning mobile applications are impractical when purchasing groceries. We thus applied a mixed reality (MR) wearable headset-mediated intervention (N = 61) at vending machines to explore the potential of passively activated, pervasive MR food labels in affecting beverage purchasing choices. Through conduction of a betweensubject randomized controlled trial, we find significant, strong improvements in nutritional quality of the selected products (Energy:-34% KJ/100ml, Sugar:-28% g/100ml). Our post-hoc analysis suggests that the intervention effect is especially effective with existing food literacy. This study motivates further research on MR food labels due to the promising, observed intervention effects.

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Effectiveness of mobile health (mHealth) interventions for promoting healthy eating in adults: A systematic review

Cited by 70 publications

References 54 publications

National Institutes of Health Support of Digital Health Behavior Research

National Institutes of Health Support of Digital Health Behavior Research

A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials of Telehealth and Digital Technology Use by Community Pharmacists to Improve Public Health

Impact of Mixed Reality Food Labels on Product Selection

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