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The Smartphone-Assisted Intervention Improved Perception of Nutritional Status among Middle School Students
Misperception of nutritional status is common and hinders the progress of childhood obesity prevention. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a smartphone-assisted intervention to improve student and parental perception of students’ nutritional status (underweight, normal weight, overweig...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165932 |
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author | Shen, Yan-Hui Liu, Zheng Li, Wen-Hao Zhou, Shuang Xu, Jin-Hui Jiang, Chu Wang, Hai-Jun |
author_facet | Shen, Yan-Hui Liu, Zheng Li, Wen-Hao Zhou, Shuang Xu, Jin-Hui Jiang, Chu Wang, Hai-Jun |
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description | Misperception of nutritional status is common and hinders the progress of childhood obesity prevention. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a smartphone-assisted intervention to improve student and parental perception of students’ nutritional status (underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese). We conducted a parallel-group controlled trial with a non-randomized design in three junior middle schools of Beijing, China in 2019. One school was allocated to the intervention group and two schools to the control group. A total of 573 students (aged 13.1 ± 0.4 years) participated in the trial. The 3-month intervention included three components: health education sessions for students and parents, regular monitoring of students’ weight, and the provision of feedback via a smartphone application. Schools in the control group continued their usual practice. Primary outcomes included the student and parental accurate perception of students’ nutritional status. The percentage of students’ accurate perception of their own nutritional status in the intervention group increased from 49.0% to 59.2% from baseline to three months, whereas it decreased from 64.1% to 58.1% in the control group; the adjusted odds ratio (OR) between the two groups was 1.71 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.13, 2.59). The intervention did not significantly improve parental perception of students’ nutritional status (p > 0.05). The study findings provided a brief approach for improving perception of nutritional status among middle school students. |
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spelling | pubmed-74599952020-09-02 The Smartphone-Assisted Intervention Improved Perception of Nutritional Status among Middle School Students Shen, Yan-Hui Liu, Zheng Li, Wen-Hao Zhou, Shuang Xu, Jin-Hui Jiang, Chu Wang, Hai-Jun Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Misperception of nutritional status is common and hinders the progress of childhood obesity prevention. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a smartphone-assisted intervention to improve student and parental perception of students’ nutritional status (underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese). We conducted a parallel-group controlled trial with a non-randomized design in three junior middle schools of Beijing, China in 2019. One school was allocated to the intervention group and two schools to the control group. A total of 573 students (aged 13.1 ± 0.4 years) participated in the trial. The 3-month intervention included three components: health education sessions for students and parents, regular monitoring of students’ weight, and the provision of feedback via a smartphone application. Schools in the control group continued their usual practice. Primary outcomes included the student and parental accurate perception of students’ nutritional status. The percentage of students’ accurate perception of their own nutritional status in the intervention group increased from 49.0% to 59.2% from baseline to three months, whereas it decreased from 64.1% to 58.1% in the control group; the adjusted odds ratio (OR) between the two groups was 1.71 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.13, 2.59). The intervention did not significantly improve parental perception of students’ nutritional status (p > 0.05). The study findings provided a brief approach for improving perception of nutritional status among middle school students. MDPI 2020-08-15 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7459995/ /pubmed/32824190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165932 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Shen, Yan-Hui Liu, Zheng Li, Wen-Hao Zhou, Shuang Xu, Jin-Hui Jiang, Chu Wang, Hai-Jun The Smartphone-Assisted Intervention Improved Perception of Nutritional Status among Middle School Students |
title | The Smartphone-Assisted Intervention Improved Perception of Nutritional Status among Middle School Students |
title_full | The Smartphone-Assisted Intervention Improved Perception of Nutritional Status among Middle School Students |
title_fullStr | The Smartphone-Assisted Intervention Improved Perception of Nutritional Status among Middle School Students |
title_full_unstemmed | The Smartphone-Assisted Intervention Improved Perception of Nutritional Status among Middle School Students |
title_short | The Smartphone-Assisted Intervention Improved Perception of Nutritional Status among Middle School Students |
title_sort | smartphone-assisted intervention improved perception of nutritional status among middle school students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165932 |
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