Personalized health, eLearning, and mHealth interventions to improve nutritional status (original) (raw)

Gasch, Margarete, Dunleavy, Gerard J., Kyaw, Bhone M., Lean, Michael E.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-0083 and Nikolaou, Charoula K.(2016) Personalized health, eLearning, and mHealth interventions to improve nutritional status.Current Nutrition Reports, 5(4), pp. 295-306. (doi: 10.1007/s13668-016-0184-4)

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Abstract

Personalised health through nutrition has been made possible by recent advances in technology. We ran a search strategy in July 2016 to identify all existing studies on mobile/eLearning randomized controlled interventions designed to improve diet, nutrition and/or body weight in adults, at individual or community level. A total of 22 studies met the inclusion and exclusion criteria for inclusion. Most studies found that integrations of technology for delivering and personalizing interventions on diet/nutrition and/or body weight were effective in reducing body-weight in overweight/obese populations (n = 8), preventing weight gain n = 4) and improving certain dietary habits (n = 10). The low cost of eHealth/mHealth interventions and their potential to reach large, sometimes hard-to-reach young population sectors makes them attractive targets for upscaling.

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