None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The Health Online for Teens (HOT) program is a 14-week multi-disciplinary healthy lifestyle and wellbeing program delivered via Moodle Mobile and a new innovative chatbot (HOT-BOT). HOT consists of diet, physical activity, and wellbeing educational modules. The aims of the program are to improve adolescent lifestyle through reducing obesity risk factors of poor diet and insufficient activity. This project involves pilot testing feasibility, engagement and accessibility, and changes in pre-post outcomes of interest (e.g. diet, physical activity measures). Research Objectives are as follows: - To assess engagement and use of the HOT program and its components, and HOT-BOT by teenage participants - To assess engagement and use of HOT parent resources by parents/caregivers of the participants - To determine the reach of HOT pilot recruitment and representativeness of the target population - To determine the effectiveness of the program to support teenagers to achieve healthy lifestyle goals, and improve weight, diet and activity behaviours, and self-perception (outcome evaluation) - To assess the agreement of adolescent-reported diet intake with parent-reported scores obtained with the Children’s Dietary Questionnaire. - To determine program satisfaction and process evaluation data from participants - To conduct focus groups and/or interviews to deeply explore the participants HOT experience (impact evaluation) and their thoughts on the content and design of the program
Interventions
Adolescents:
The Health Online for Teens (HOT) program is a 14-week multi-disciplinary healthy lifestyle and wellbeing program delivered via Moodle Mobile. HOT consists of diet, physical activity, and wellbeing educational modules. The aims of the program are to improve adolescent lifestyle through reducing obesity risk factors of poor diet and insufficient activity. There are a series of HOT behaviour targets which are informed by evidence-based National guidelines for diet (the Australian Di
Adolescents: The Health Online for Teens (HOT) program is a 14-week multi-disciplinary healthy lifestyle and wellbeing program delivered via Moodle Mobile. HOT consists of diet, physical activity, and wellbeing educational modules. The aims of the program are to improve adolescent lifestyle through reducing obesity risk factors of poor diet and insufficient activity. There are a series of HOT behaviour targets which are informed by evidence-based National guidelines for diet (the Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating) and activity (Australia’s Physical Activity & Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for Young People (13 – 17 years)). In this study, adolescents will review and reflect their current lifestyle behaviours, and will be encouraged to set goals to improve these. Each week they will assess their progress against these goals and be supported to uphold existing or set additional sustainable behaviour change goals. Adolescent participants will have access to HOT-BOT, which is an automated online chatbot, designed in the Program ChatFuel and delivered over the Facebook Messenger platform. HOT-BOT will check in weekly with participants to ask whether they have completed the HOT program module on Moodle and activities to try at home that week. HOT-BOT is a personalised motivational tool which is fun and engaging and will deliver goal setting and review content from the HOT program in a different way. Adolescent use of the program and features will be analysed from in-built metrics collected by Moodle and ChatFuel/Facebook Messenger. Parents Parents will receive access to an abridged version of the HOT program, separate to their adolescent children. This decision has been made so that adolescents can say anything in their HOT program forums which will be confidential and private from their parents. Parents may also wish for the same privacy when interacting with other parents in online forums. The parent version of HOT includes content the children receive that week, as well as information for them on how to be a supportive parent. In addition, dietary guidelines and physical activity guidelines for adults will also be a part of the parent HOT program. Parent use of the program and features will be analysed from in-built metrics collected by Moodle.
Sponsors
Flinders University
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
13 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Adolescents: - girls and boys - aged 13 – 17 years at enrolment - above a healthy weight for their age and gender (overweight or obese) - not pregnant or breastfeeding or planning pregnancy (girls) - access to stable and reliable Wi-Fi network at home Parents of adolescent participants - any age - parent and/or caregiver of an adolescent participant (generally 1-2 parents/caregivers per adolescent participant but may be more)
Exclusion criteria
Adolescents: - <13 or >17 years of age - healthy weight or underweight - pregnant or breastfeeding girls - no Wi-Fi or internet at home - unable to read/write English Parents: - not a parent of a participating eligible adolescent child
Outcome results
None listed