A Smart Phone Application in Improving Healthy Lifestyle and Health Outcomes for Children and Family

• Main Authors: Chia-Tung Wu, 吳佳東
• Other Authors: Feipei Lai
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ft7yr4

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 生醫電子與資訊學研究所 === 105 === Family is a primary agent in the promotion of healthy behaviors and lifestyles for children, family-based health promotion and lifestyle modification will be beneficial to live healthily in childhood and prevent from chronic condition in adulthood. As e-health technology has been widely applied in the prevention and management of health problem, smart phone applications offer a potentially powerful approach for behavioral change. As the limited research on the smart phone application to modify healthy lifestyles for parents and children, this research aims to: (1) develop a family-centered school-based KidsHealth Smart Phone Apps Intervention (KiSPAI) to improve healthy lifestyles for school-age children; (2) validate the clinical feasibility and generalization of KiSPAI; (3) evaluate the effectiveness of the KiSPAI in improving the healthy behaviors and outcomes for school-age children with specific diseases. Research subjects were recruited from the selected elementary schools and a university hospital in Taipei. Children aged 9-12, with permission of parents or legal guardian are eligible to participate in the study. The 8-week KiSPAI was conducted by parent-child self-assessments, home visits, online discussion and feedbacks, the components consist of healthy eating, regular physical activity, decrease sedentary behaviors and preserve good sleep quality, which were conducted by smart eating system, Fitbit Charge2 to monitor physical activity and sleep quality. Data of the outcome measures are collected at the time of randomization (T1) and further 4 waves at 3-month follow-up (T2-T4). Outcome measures include healthy lifestyle behaviors: food and beverage intake, physical activity, sedentary behaviors and adequate sleep. The health outcomes are body composition measured by body mass index, waist circumferences, body fat and health status. This KiSPAI smart phone platform can provide dynamic feedback to the school-age asthma children to deliver healthy behavior change, the program development and implementation can be a reference for the e-Health action plan for children with other chronic health conditions to foster their healthy lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes.