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Effectiveness of an mHealth intervention for overweight and obesity prevention in school-going youth
The dramatic increase in obesity documented in SA and many other countries creates a need to understand the behavioral, psychological, and environmental determinants of obesity in emerging economies and use that knowledge to design and test an m-Health intervention and hence decrease the prevalence of risk factors, reducing mortality and morbidity.
The study’s main objectives are:
- Build upon the literature review from the first collaboration and apply for international grant/funding.
- Examine the prevalence of overweight/obesity among SA adolescents by race, sex, school status, etc. and prevalence of risk factors (behavioural, psychological and environmental) among SA and Swedish adolescents
- Examine the association between overweight/obesity and risk factors
- Devise an m-health programme to provide support to change the health-related behaviour of overweight/obese adolescents
This proposal intends to use 3 workshops to achieve these objectives and develop a design prototype for an m-health intervention to address the proliferation of obesity among school-going youth.
Forskningsområde
- Vård och hälsovetenskap
- Informatik
Forskningsmiljö / Institution
- Arbetsintegrerat lärande
- Institutionen för ekonomi och IT
Projektledare
Övriga projektmedverkande
Professor Priscilla Reddy
Nelson Mandela University
Dr. Tomas Lindroth
Gothenburg University
Dr. Sherran Clarence
Rhodes University
Dr. Lungile Pepeta
Nelson Mandela University
Forskningspartner
- Nelson Mandela University
- Göteborgs universitet
- Rhodes University
Forskningsfinansiär
- SASUF
Projekttid
2020 - 2020