Dept of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy.
Kotuko srl, Italy.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18;302:957-961. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230317.
Obesity is increasing in the pediatric population and it represents an important risk factor for the life-long development of several diseases. The aim of this work is to reduce children obesity through an educational program delivered through a mobile application. Novelties of our approach are the involvement of the families in the program and a design inspired to psychological/behavioral change theories, with the aim of maximizing the chance of patients' compliance to the program. A pilot usability and acceptability study has been performed on ten children aged 6-12 years using a questionnaire to evaluate eight system features on a Likert scale from 1 to 5. Encouraging results were obtained: mean scores were all above 3.
儿童肥胖症的发病率正在不断上升，它是导致多种疾病的一个重要终身危险因素。本研究旨在通过一款移动应用程序来实施教育项目，从而降低儿童肥胖症的发病率。我们的方法具有创新性，它将家庭纳入到项目中，并借鉴了心理/行为改变理论，旨在最大限度地提高患者对项目的依从性。我们对 10 名 6-12 岁的儿童进行了一项试点可用性和可接受性研究，使用问卷来评估 8 个系统特性，评分范围为 1 到 5。结果令人鼓舞：平均得分均高于 3。
