Using a Smartphone Application to Promote Healthy Dietary Behaviours and Local Food Consumption.
Using a Smartphone Application to Promote Healthy Dietary Behaviours and Local Food Consumption.
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10.1155/2015/841368
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2015
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Doherty S
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Gilliland J;Sadler R;Clark A;O'Connor C;Milczarek M;Doherty S
智能手机“应用程序”是促进公共卫生的有力工具，但单方面的干预措施在维持行为改变方面一直无效。各种后勤问题存在于健康干预计划和持续行为改变的成功应用程序开发中。这项研究报告了一种名为“SmartAPPetite”的智能手机应用程序和消息服务，该服务使用经过验证的行为改变技术和行为经济学方法来“推动”用户养成健康的饮食行为。为了帮助衡量该计划的参与程度和影响力，使用前期食物调查，信息摄取跟踪，经验抽样访谈和后续调查收集数据。随后解决了消息服务部署中的基于日志和内容的问题，以加强应用程序在改变饮食行为方面的有效性。挑战包括为参与者创建相关的食品目标类别，提供适合自我报告的食品扫盲的信息，并确保继续参与该计划。SmartAPPetite有效地提高了人们对健康食品的认识和消费，并吸引人们更频繁地前往当地食品供应商。这项工作是一个方法和最佳实践的仓库，旨在改善健康，经济和环境的“三重底线”。
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.