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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Feasibility of Social-Network-Based eHealth Intervention on the Improvement of Healthy Habits among Children.

José Alberto Benítez-Andrades, Natalia Arias, María Teresa García-Ordás, Marta Martínez-Martínez, Isaías García-Rodríguez

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

José Alberto Benítez-AndradesSALBIS Research Group, Department of Electric, Systems and Automatics Engineering, University of León, Campus of Vegazana s/n, León, 24071 León, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4450-349X
Natalia AriasSALBIS Research Group, Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy Health Science School, University of León, Avenida Astorga s/n, Ponferrada 24401 León, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5333-2653
María Teresa García-OrdásSECOMUCI Research Groups, Escuela de Ingenierías Industrial e Informática, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana s/n, C.P. 24071 León, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3796-3949
Marta Martínez-MartínezUniversity of León, Campus of Vegazana s/n, León, 24071 León, Spain.
Isaías García-RodríguezSECOMUCI Research Groups, Escuela de Ingenierías Industrial e Informática, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana s/n, C.P. 24071 León, Spain.

Funding

Consejería de Educación, Junta de Castilla y León LE014G18
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study shows the feasibility of an eHealth solution for tackling eating habits and physical activity in the adolescent population. The participants were children from 11 to 15 years old. An intervention was carried out on 139 students in the intervention group and 91 students in the control group, in two schools during 14 weeks. The intervention group had access to the web through a user account and a password. They were able to create friendship relationships, post comments, give likes and interact with other users, as well as receive notifications and information about nutrition and physical activity on a daily basis and get (virtual) rewards for improving their habits. The control group did not have access to any of these features. The homogeneity of the samples in terms of gender, age, body mass index and initial health-related habits was demonstrated. Pre- and post-measurements were collected through self-reports on the application website. After applying multivariate analysis of variance, a significant alteration in the age-adjusted body mass index percentile was observed in the intervention group versus the control group, as well as in the PAQ-A score and the KIDMED score. It can be concluded that eHealth interventions can help to obtain healthy habits. More research is needed to examine the effectiveness in achieving adherence to these new habits.

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HabitsSocial NetworkingTelemedicineAdolescentBody Mass IndexCase-Control StudiesChildFeasibility StudiesFeeding BehaviorFemaleHumansMaleSurveys and QuestionnaireseHealthhealthy habitsmHealthobesityphysical activity

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PMID32143458
PMCPMC7085577

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