Joseph-Shehu Elizabeth M, Ncama Busisiwe P
School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College, Durban, South Africa.
Faculty of Health Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria, Jabi, Abuja, Nigeria.
BMJ Open. 2017 Mar 29;7(3):e014358. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014358.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a key role in improving health and maintaining health promoting behaviours. ICTs are therefore one potential solution for promoting healthy lifestyles. In addition, they can assist in the reduction and control of the menace of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. This study will map evidence of interventions that demonstrate the effect of ICTs on health-promoting lifestyle practices that can prevent and control diseases. It is anticipated that this study will help identify areas where there is need for primary research.
The following electronic databases will be searched: PsycArticle (EBSCO), PsycINFO (EBSCO), Science direct, PubMed, Medline (EBSCO) and Google Scholar. The study will be conducted in two stages: the first stage will map out the studies descriptively while the second stage will map the additional inclusion criteria of quality assessment. Two independent reviewers will undertake the data extraction. Relevant outcomes of the studies will be analysed thematically using NVIvo computer software. The authors will code all evidence independently. Thereafter the authors will critically cross-examine the relationship of the research questions to the emerging themes from the selected articles. The authors hope to find a large number of studies on health-promoting lifestyles that encompass six-subscales of health-promoting activities (nutrition, stress management, interpersonal relation, self-actualisation, health responsibility, physical activity) and ICT.
This study will be presented in conferences related to health promotion and health-promoting lifestyles. It will also be disseminated in print and electronically.
CRD42016042568.
信息通信技术在改善健康和维持健康促进行为方面发挥着关键作用。因此，信息通信技术是促进健康生活方式的一种潜在解决方案。此外，它们有助于减少和控制传染病和非传染病的威胁。本研究将梳理出一些干预措施的证据，这些措施表明信息通信技术对可预防和控制疾病的健康促进生活方式实践具有影响。预计本研究将有助于确定需要进行初步研究的领域。
将检索以下电子数据库：PsycArticle（EBSCO）、PsycINFO（EBSCO）、Science direct、PubMed、Medline（EBSCO）和谷歌学术。该研究将分两个阶段进行：第一阶段将对研究进行描述性梳理，而第二阶段将梳理质量评估的额外纳入标准。两名独立的评审员将进行数据提取。将使用NVIvo计算机软件对研究的相关结果进行主题分析。作者将独立对所有证据进行编码。此后，作者将严格交叉审视研究问题与所选文章中出现的主题之间的关系。作者希望找到大量关于健康促进生活方式的研究，这些研究涵盖健康促进活动的六个子量表（营养、压力管理、人际关系、自我实现、健康责任、体育活动）和信息通信技术。
本研究将在与健康促进和健康促进生活方式相关的会议上发表。它还将以印刷和电子形式传播。
CRD42016042568。
