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ArticleBioMed research international2015

Using a Smartphone Application to Promote Healthy Dietary Behaviours and Local Food Consumption.

Jason Gilliland, Richard Sadler, Andrew Clark, Colleen O'Connor, Malgorzata Milczarek, Sean Doherty

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Article in BioMed research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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44 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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6 authors.

Jason GillilandDepartment of Geography, School of Health Studies, Department of Paediatrics Social Science Centre, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C2.
Richard SadlerDepartment of Family Medicine, Michigan State University, 200 E 1st Street, Flint, MI 48502, USA.
Andrew ClarkDepartment of Geography, Social Science Centre, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C2.
Colleen O'ConnorDivision of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Brescia University College, 1285 Western Road, London, ON, Canada N6G 1H2.
Malgorzata MilczarekDepartment of Geography, Social Science Centre, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C2.
Sean DohertyDepartment of Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University AW, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3C5.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Smartphone "apps" are a powerful tool for public health promotion, but unidimensional interventions have been ineffective at sustaining behavioural change. Various logistical issues exist in successful app development for health intervention programs and for sustaining behavioural change. This study reports on a smartphone application and messaging service, called "SmartAPPetite," which uses validated behaviour change techniques and a behavioural economic approach to "nudge" users into healthy dietary behaviours. To help gauge participation in and influence of the program, data were collected using an upfront food survey, message uptake tracking, experience sampling interviews, and a follow-up survey. Logistical and content-based issues in the deployment of the messaging service were subsequently addressed to strengthen the effectiveness of the app in changing dietary behaviours. Challenges included creating relevant food goal categories for participants, providing messaging appropriate to self-reported food literacy and ensuring continued participation in the program. SmartAPPetite was effective at creating a sense of improved awareness and consumption of healthy foods, as well as drawing people to local food vendors with greater frequency. This work serves as a storehouse of methods and best practices for multidimensional local food-based smartphone interventions aimed at improving the "triple bottom line" of health, economy, and environment.

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DietDiet RecordsFeeding BehaviorSmartphoneFemaleHealth PromotionHumansMaleSoftware

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PMID26380298
PMCPMC4561980

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