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Development and Pilot Testing of the Eating4two Mobile Phone App to Monitor Gestational Weight Gain

BACKGROUND: The number of pregnant women with a body mass index (BMI) of 30kg/m(2) or more is increasing, which has important implications for antenatal care. Various resource-intensive interventions have attempted to assist women in managing their weight gain during pregnancy with limited success....

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Autores principales: Knight-Agarwal, Catherine, Davis, Deborah Lee, Williams, Lauren, Davey, Rachel, Cox, Robert, Clarke, Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26048313
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.4071
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author Knight-Agarwal, Catherine
Davis, Deborah Lee
Williams, Lauren
Davey, Rachel
Cox, Robert
Clarke, Adam
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Williams, Lauren
Davey, Rachel
Cox, Robert
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description BACKGROUND: The number of pregnant women with a body mass index (BMI) of 30kg/m(2) or more is increasing, which has important implications for antenatal care. Various resource-intensive interventions have attempted to assist women in managing their weight gain during pregnancy with limited success. A mobile phone app has been proposed as a convenient and cost-effective alternative to face-to-face interventions. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the process of developing and pilot testing the Eating4Two app, which aims to provide women with a simple gestational weight gain (GWG) calculator, general dietary information, and the motivation to achieve a healthy weight gain during pregnancy. METHODS: The project involved the development of app components, including a graphing function that allows the user to record their weight throughout the pregnancy and to receive real-time feedback on weight gain progress and general information on antenatal nutrition. Stakeholder consultation was used to inform development. The app was pilot tested with 10 pregnant women using a mixed method approach via an online survey, 2 focus groups, and 1 individual interview. RESULTS: The Eating4Two app took 7 months to develop and evaluate. It involved several disciplines--including nutrition and dietetics, midwifery, public health, and information technology--at the University of Canberra. Participants found the Eating4Two app to be a motivational tool but would have liked scales or other markers on the graph that demonstrated exact weight gain. They also liked the nutrition information; however, many felt it should be formatted in a more user friendly way. CONCLUSIONS: The Eating4Two app was viewed by participants in our study as an innovative support system to help motivate healthy behaviors during pregnancy and as a credible resource for accessing nutrition-focused information. The feedback provided by participants will assist with refining the current prototype for use in a clinical intervention trial.
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spelling pubmed-45269032015-08-11 Development and Pilot Testing of the Eating4two Mobile Phone App to Monitor Gestational Weight Gain Knight-Agarwal, Catherine Davis, Deborah Lee Williams, Lauren Davey, Rachel Cox, Robert Clarke, Adam JMIR Mhealth Uhealth Original Paper BACKGROUND: The number of pregnant women with a body mass index (BMI) of 30kg/m(2) or more is increasing, which has important implications for antenatal care. Various resource-intensive interventions have attempted to assist women in managing their weight gain during pregnancy with limited success. A mobile phone app has been proposed as a convenient and cost-effective alternative to face-to-face interventions. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the process of developing and pilot testing the Eating4Two app, which aims to provide women with a simple gestational weight gain (GWG) calculator, general dietary information, and the motivation to achieve a healthy weight gain during pregnancy. METHODS: The project involved the development of app components, including a graphing function that allows the user to record their weight throughout the pregnancy and to receive real-time feedback on weight gain progress and general information on antenatal nutrition. Stakeholder consultation was used to inform development. The app was pilot tested with 10 pregnant women using a mixed method approach via an online survey, 2 focus groups, and 1 individual interview. RESULTS: The Eating4Two app took 7 months to develop and evaluate. It involved several disciplines--including nutrition and dietetics, midwifery, public health, and information technology--at the University of Canberra. Participants found the Eating4Two app to be a motivational tool but would have liked scales or other markers on the graph that demonstrated exact weight gain. They also liked the nutrition information; however, many felt it should be formatted in a more user friendly way. CONCLUSIONS: The Eating4Two app was viewed by participants in our study as an innovative support system to help motivate healthy behaviors during pregnancy and as a credible resource for accessing nutrition-focused information. The feedback provided by participants will assist with refining the current prototype for use in a clinical intervention trial. JMIR Publications Inc. 2015-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4526903/ /pubmed/26048313 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.4071 Text en ©Catherine Knight-Agarwal, Deborah Lee Davis, Lauren Williams, Rachel Davey, Robert Cox, Adam Clarke. Originally published in JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 05.06.2015. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR mhealth and uhealth, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mhealth.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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title_fullStr Development and Pilot Testing of the Eating4two Mobile Phone App to Monitor Gestational Weight Gain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26048313
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.4071
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