<i>State of the Art Reviews</i>: Using the Internet to Promote Physical Activity and Healthy Eating in Youth

Whiteley, Jessica A.; Bailey, Bruce W.; McInnis, Kyle

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“…Innovative treatment strategies (e.g. internet or computermediated treatment) could provide an effective and cost-effective means to facilitate tailoring and targeting of treatment and maintaining support post-treatment over traditional, expensive face-toface approaches (Whiteley et al, 2008).…”

Section: Implications For Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Key stakeholders’ perspectives towards childhood obesity treatment: A qualitative study

Staniford

Breckon

Copeland

et al. 2011

J Child Health Care

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Over the past three decades, there has been a dramatic global increase in childhood obesity. A better understanding of stakeholders' perceptions of intervention requirements could contribute to developing more effective interventions for childhood obesity. This study provides a qualitative, in-depth, analysis of stakeholders' (children, parents and health professionals) perspectives toward the efficacy of childhood obesity treatment interventions. Twenty-six stakeholders were recruited using purposive sampling; semi-structured interviews were adopted to explore stakeholders' perceptions with data analysed using a framework approach. Stakeholders concurred that treatment should be family-based incorporating physical activity, nutrition and psychological components, and be delivered in familiar environments to recipients. However, incongruence existed between stakeholders towards the sustainability of obesity treatment interventions. Parents and children reported needing ongoing support to sustain behavioural changes made during treatment, while health professionals suggested interventions should aim to create autonomous individuals who exit treatment and independently sustain behaviour change. This study provides an insight into issues of stakeholder involvement in the obesity intervention design and delivery process. To promote long-term behaviour change, there needs to be increased congruence between the delivery and receipt of childhood obesity treatment interventions. Interventions need to incorporate strategies that promote autonomous and self-regulated motivation, to enhance families' confidence in sustaining behaviour change independent of health professional support.

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Section: Implications For Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Key stakeholders’ perspectives towards childhood obesity treatment: A qualitative study

Staniford

Breckon

Copeland

et al. 2011

J Child Health Care

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“…To date, we found only two reviews of studies that have used computer‐ and web‐based technology to promote PA and healthy eating (Weinstein 2006, Whiteley et al. 2008).…”

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Computer- and web-based interventions to increase preadolescent and adolescent physical activity: a systematic review

Hamel

Robbins

Wilbur

2010

Journal of Advanced Nursing

105

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“…However, it is difficult to ascertain if the observed potential will be sustained on a long-term basis since only 2 studies out of 14 studies deployed their applications for 3 months. A similar problem has been experienced in establishing the effectiveness of internet-based and video game to combat obesity [117][118][119]. Mattila et al…”

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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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State of the Art Reviews: Using the Internet to Promote Physical Activity and Healthy Eating in Youth

Cited by 15 publications

References 31 publications

Key stakeholders’ perspectives towards childhood obesity treatment: A qualitative study

Key stakeholders’ perspectives towards childhood obesity treatment: A qualitative study

Computer- and web-based interventions to increase preadolescent and adolescent physical activity: a systematic review

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

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