Social media for health promotion and weight management: a critical debate.
Social media for health promotion and weight management: a critical debate.
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DOI：
10.1186/s12889-018-5837-3
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发表时间：
2018-07-28
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
Pal S
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作者：
Jane M;Hagger M;Foster J;Ho S;Pal S
2016年，全球估计有19亿成年人超重或肥胖。肥胖造成的健康后果每年导致280万例可预防的死亡。世界卫生组织现在认为肥胖是一种全球流行病，并建议采取全民健康促进战略来解决这一问题。体重增加是由于能量摄入增加和缺乏体力活动造成的，因此治疗应侧重于改变饮食和体力活动的行为。世界卫生组织也认识到社会资源的重要性，认为它是促进健康的行为改变的宝贵因素。社会资源在社区一级以信息、物质援助和鼓励的形式转化为重要其他人，如家庭、伙伴和同龄人提供的支持。社会支持已被证明能改善健康和福祉，而社会孤立已被证明对健康结果有负面影响。同龄人提供的社会支持已被证明是体重管理方案中采用的一种有用的策略。有记录表明，信息和通信技术和社交媒体的使用增加，为健康促进者提供了一个潜在的有用媒介，以增加对体重管理的社会支持。虽然使用社交媒体促进健康是一个新兴的调查领域，但初步研究表明，它增加了参与者的参与度，并可能提供一种成本效益高的工具，为参与体重管理计划的个人提供社会支持。随着严格的隐私协议到位，社交媒体可能是多因素体重管理计划的有用、成本效益高的辅助工具。然而，还需要更多的研究来确定如何最好地利用社交媒体作为促进健康的工具。
In 2016 an estimated 1.9 billion adults world-wide were either overweight or obese. The health consequences of obesity are responsible for 2.8 million preventable deaths per year. The WHO now considers obesity as a global epidemic and recommends population-wide health promotion strategies to address this issue. Weight gain is caused by increased energy intake and physical inactivity, so treatment should focus on changes to behaviour regarding diet and physical activity. The WHO has also recognised the importance of social resources as a valuable agent for behaviour change in health promotion. Social resources are translated at the community level as support provided by significant others such as family, partners and peers, in the form of information, material aid and encouragement. Social support has been shown to improve health and well-being, whereas social isolation has been shown to have a negative impact on health outcomes. Social support provided by peers has been shown to be a useful strategy to employ in weight management programmes. The documented increased use of ICT and social media has presented health promoters with a potentially useful medium to increase social support for weight management. While the use of social media for health promotion is an emerging field of investigation, preliminary research suggests that it increases participant engagement, and may provide a cost-effective tool to provide social support for individuals participating in weight management programmes. With stringent privacy protocols in place, social media may be a useful, cost-effective accompaniment to multifactorial weight management programmes. However more research is needed to identify how to make the best use of social media as health promotion tool.
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