2015
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2014.0197
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Smartphone Interventions for Weight Treatment and Behavioral Change in Pediatric Obesity: A Systematic Review

Abstract: Smartphone technologies allow users to accomplish tasks anywhere and anytime and, as such, provide researchers with additional and generationally appropriate capacities to deliver health promotion. E-contact should be used for its significant capacity to prolong engagement and decrease withdrawal during sustainability phases that follow intensive intervention for weight management in young populations. Despite increasing popularity in published protocols of weight management trials, the effectiveness of the im… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
2
1
1
1

Citation Types

1
55
0

Year Published

2016
2016
2021
2021

Publication Types

Select...
6
2

Relationship

0
8

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 51 publications
(56 citation statements)
references
References 37 publications
1
55
0
Order By: Relevance
“…We found a modest and comparable increase in weight and a modest and comparable decrease in the z ‐score of BMI in the two groups. Our results are in keeping with those of other RCTs showing that smartphones alone are not very effective in reducing BMI in obese children .…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 64%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…We found a modest and comparable increase in weight and a modest and comparable decrease in the z ‐score of BMI in the two groups. Our results are in keeping with those of other RCTs showing that smartphones alone are not very effective in reducing BMI in obese children .…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 64%
“…APP and SMS have been shown to be able to induce short‐term behavioural changes in adults . However, the effectiveness of mobile health technology (m‐health) to promote weight loss is equivocal in children . APP‐based tracking of food consumption has been associated with positive changes in the dietary behaviour of obese children .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…E-health interventions have been shown to be at least as effective as traditional non-web-based interventions [42] and evidence regarding their efficacy to treat or prevent childhood obesity is still emerging [10, 11, 15]. However, adherence (defined as attendance and utilization of intervention components) to e-health interventions varies greatly.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2010Qualitative field study on how individuals interact with smart energy meters and how it can affect the behaviour of consuming less energy Martiskainen & Coburn (2011) Identifying which factors contribute most to energy-efficient household use using smart energy meters Health and fitness Aliabadi et al 2016Identify desirable features for an application that prevents HIV in men. Focus groups with 33 participants Baranowski & Frankel (2012) Describe different forms of ICT for behavioural change and its strengths and weaknesses to affect children to more healthy behaviour Chaplais et al (2015) Systematic literature review on the effects of smartphone usage as a tool for treating obesity among children Chen et al (2015) Evaluate the quality of the most popular health applications and quantify the techniques used to encourage behaviour change Coombes and Jones (2016) Aims to get children more active by encouraging them to walk and cycle in their neighbourhood using tracking technology with a reward scheme. Evaluates the impact of the "Beat the Street-scheme" on active travel to school in Norwich, UK Dennison et al (2013) Explore young adults (n = 19) perspective on health and behavioural applications to find out what motivates them to use such applications.…”
Section: Customization To the Usermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Higher motivation and involvement leads to a greater extent to positive results (Kraft and Yardley, 2009;Hargreavesn et al, 2010;Martiskainen and Coburn, 2011;Gilliland et al, 2015;Jariyasunant et al, 2015;Castellanos, 2016;Coombes and Jones, 2016) 19. Gamification can extend the commitment of the user (Kraft and Yardley, 2009;Baranowski and Frankel, 2012;Berger and Platzer, 2015;Chaplais et al, 2015;DiFilippo et al, 2015;Poslad et al, 2015;Castellanos, 2016) 20. Gamification does not necessarily increase sustainable travel in itself, but on the other hand increases engagement at least in a short perspective (Wells et al, 2014;Coombes and Jones, 2016) 21.…”
Section: Categorymentioning
confidence: 99%