Design of a Mobile App for Nutrition Education (TreC-LifeStyle) and Formative Evaluation With Families of Overweight Children

• Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth Vol. 5; no. 4; p. e48
• Main Authors: Gabrielli, Silvia, Dianti, Marco, Maimone, Rosa, Betta, Marta, Filippi, Lorena, Ghezzi, Monica, Forti, Stefano
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 13.04.2017
• Subjects: Behavior; Cellular telephones; Children & youth; Design; Families & family life; Food; Formative evaluation; Intervention; Lifestyles; Nutrition education; Nutrition research; Nutritionists; Original Paper; Overweight; Parents & parenting; Pediatrics; Portable computers; Primary care; Taxonomy; Usability; evaluation studies; health behavior; mHealth; overweight; pediatrics; child

Nutrition and diet apps represent today a popular area of mobile health (mHealth), offering the possibility of delivering behavior change (BC) interventions for healthy eating and weight management in a scalable and cost-effective way. However, if commercial apps for pediatric weight management fail...