Connecting Health and Technology (CHAT): Effectiveness of a mobile phone intervention to promote dietary change

Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This study is a 6 months intervention using a mobile devices to collect food intake data, provide dietary feedback and ongoing tailored nutrition messages to promote dietary change in young adults aged 18 to 30 years.

Deborah A. Kerr, Amelia J. Harray, Christina Pollard, Satvinder S. Dhaliwal, Edward J. Delp et al. (13 authors)

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity2016-04-21156 citations

10.1186/s12966-016-0376-8

Connecting Health and Technology (CHAT): protocol of a randomized controlled trial to improve nutrition behaviours using mobile devices and tailored text messaging in young adults.

Kerr DA, Pollard CM, Howat P, Delp EJ, Pickering M, Kerr KR, Dhaliwal SS, Pratt IS, Wright J, Boushey CJ.

2012-06-2242 citations

10.1186/1471-2458-12-477

Interventions

This is a 6 month intervention using a mobile device to collect food intake data using an investigator-designed application which users will be provided with on a study iPod touch or downloaded into the user's iPhone. The 4-day mobile device food record will be completed by all participants at baseline and at six months completion. They will take images of all food and drinks consumed over a continuous four day period. Intervention groups 1 and 2 will receive dietary feedback on the number of se

This is a 6 month intervention using a mobile device to collect food intake data using an investigator-designed application which users will be provided with on a study iPod touch or downloaded into the user's iPhone. The 4-day mobile device food record will be completed by all participants at baseline and at six months completion. They will take images of all food and drinks consumed over a continuous four day period. Intervention groups 1 and 2 will receive dietary feedback on the number of serves of fruits, vegetables and extra food (junk food) consumed compared with recommended serves by a message sent to their mobile phone. Intervention group 1 will also receive additional ongoing tailored nutrition messages (motivational messages on fruits, vegetables and extra foods or recipes) to promote dietary change via a mobile telephone. Arm 1: Intervention Group 1: 4-day mobile device food record, dietary feedback, weekly Text Messages for six months. Arm 2: Intervention Group 2: 4-day mobile device food record, dietary feedback, no Text Messages over six months.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 30 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

1. have a mobile telephone

Exclusion criteria

1. pregnant women 2. unlikely to complete the 6 month study 3. undertake extreme forms of exercise or dieting 4. unable to attend the study centre on 4 occasions.

Outcome results