Planning a health promotion program: Mobile app gamification as a tool to engage adolescents

Pernencar, Cláudia; Sousa, Pedro; Frontini, Roberta; Martinho, Ricardo; Runte, Daniel; Mendes, Denis; Carvalho, Miguel

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.016

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“…Physical activity can improve monoamine levels by increasing endorphin levels [ 69 ] and decrease cortisol secretion levels [ 70 ]. Likewise, it is important to take into account active methodologies that make students a protagonist in the acquisition of healthy habits through positive experiences that amuse them while consolidating the healthy habits learned [ 14 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this sense, it is important to highlight the role of the teacher and learning styles as an important figure in the development and promotion of healthy lifestyle [13]. Specifically, styles such as gamification [14] or cooperative learning [15] have focused on promoting healthy habits to improve body composition, physical activity, self-concept, and quality of life.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Physical Activity and Quality of Life in High School Students: Proposals for Improving the Self-Concept in Physical Education

Vaquero-Solís

Tapia-Serrano

Hortigüela-Alcalá

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Adolescence is a critical period for the acquisition of health-related behaviors that will transcend later psychological well-being in adulthood. The present study presents a theoretical model whose objective is to analyze how physical activity predicts an adequate quality of life through self-concept and subjective happiness among adolescents. A total of 452 students aged 12 to 15 (M = 13.8; SD = 0.77) from four Compulsory Secondary Education institutes of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura participated, including boys (n = 258) and girls (n = 194). The students reported information on the following variables: physical activity, body mass index, self-concept, subjective happiness, and quality of life. The results show acceptable fit indices for the proposed theoretical model, which showed the importance of physical activity through self-concept and subjective happiness in quality of life: MRLχ2 = 67.533, p < 0.05, CFI = 0.93, TLI = 0.90, SRMR = 0.05, and RMSA = 0.07. Likewise, the model presented a better fit index for males than females. This study draws conclusions on the importance of physical activity as a predictor of quality of life mediated by the perception of self-concept and mood in adolescents.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Physical Activity and Quality of Life in High School Students: Proposals for Improving the Self-Concept in Physical Education

Vaquero-Solís

Tapia-Serrano

Hortigüela-Alcalá

et al. 2021

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“…There are different studies on educational programs that prove the efficacy of caloric expenditure associated with the use of exergames [13][14][15][16][17], as well as the effectiveness of using technologies and gamification with children to promote healthy habits in the short term [18,19]. But there are few studies in the literature that evaluate the real effectiveness of using videogames as a means to promote long-term physical activity among children and adolescents, and very few that focus on their use as part of treating obese children, probably because it is a relatively new phenomenon [20,21].…”

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Effects of a Gamified Educational Program in the Nutrition of Children with Obesity

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Obesity is considered a global epidemic of the twenty-first century by the World Health Organization (WHO). Specifically, the Canary Islands has the highest level of this disease in Europe and 40% of children in Spain are overweight or obese. This increase is a direct result of changes in the lifestyles of the population and its nutrition. Because of this, we have designed an educational program based on motor games, active videogames and virtual learning environments to improve the long-term health of children. This article presents and analyzes the results of a study on the nutritional knowledge and adherence to the Mediterranean diet of 46 obese children aged 6 to 12 years in the Canary Islands who participated in an educational program. The study design was quasi-experimental, with two groups (experimental and control). A long-term longitudinal study (3 years) was carried out. A set of evaluation instruments was used for the different phases. The results show significant improvements between the experimental and control groups in terms of their knowledge of healthy nutrition and their adherence to the Mediterranean diet. As a main conclusion, we emphasize that a gamified educational intervention program supported by ICT helps to motivate and promote improvements in the nutrition of children.

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“…Gamification can be defined as incorporating the element of gameplay into a non-game context (Thiel, 2016;Wong & Kwok, 2016). It is also called turning an existing structure into a game, encouraging players to take part (Pernencar et al, 2018;Wong & Kwok, 2016).…”

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Improving Knowledge of Text Neck and Neck Pain Using Interactive Smartphone Application for Undergraduate Students in Universiti Sains Malaysia

Dolah

Yie

Gee

2020

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Text neck syndrome has become more prevalent in modern life and can be avoided with proper neck warm-up exercise and frequent smartphone break-away. However, research has shown that due to a lack of education and awareness, most mobile users did not have the habit of break-away when using smartphones. Most solutions required the use of an external device attached to the body, resulting in significantly reduced ease of use and comfort. The objective of this study is to determine the level of knowledge and awareness of the text neck among undergraduate students of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and to create an interactive mobile application to reduce the prevalence. The app is AR-based neck exercise gamification that alerts incorrect posture using a smartphone front camera and a built-in sensor. The proposed study will enable people who are suffering from, or at risk of, text neck to have more pleasant and engaging neck exercise experience with a better exercise impact, and may promote regular break-away from the wrong posture.

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Planning a health promotion program: Mobile app gamification as a tool to engage adolescents

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

Physical Activity and Quality of Life in High School Students: Proposals for Improving the Self-Concept in Physical Education

Physical Activity and Quality of Life in High School Students: Proposals for Improving the Self-Concept in Physical Education

Effects of a Gamified Educational Program in the Nutrition of Children with Obesity

Improving Knowledge of Text Neck and Neck Pain Using Interactive Smartphone Application for Undergraduate Students in Universiti Sains Malaysia

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