Imperial College London
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EUR ING Dr Edward A Meinert

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Honorary Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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@article{Milne-Ives:2022:10.2196/preprints.40151,
author = {Milne-Ives, M and Rahman, E and Bradwell, H and Baines, R and Boey, T and Potter, A and Lawrence, W and van, Velthoven MH and Meinert, E},
doi = {10.2196/preprints.40151},
title = {Acceptability and usability of a mobile app for family obesity prevention and management: A mixed-methods study (Preprint)},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.40151},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <sec>                    <title>BACKGROUND</title>                        <p>Childhood obesity is a growing global public health concern. Digital tools could encourage behaviour change for healthy lifestyles, but a better understanding of their strategies, adoption, and impact is needed to ensure that available tools actually benefit users. Health Education England developed a digital app (‘NoObesity’) to facilitate and improve communication between families and healthcare providers and to support healthy lifestyle behaviour change.</p>                </sec>                                <sec>                    <title>OBJECTIVE</title>                        <p>The aim of the study was to collect evidence about the adoption and implementation of a family-focused app for childhood obesity prevention to inform further development. Specific objectives included examining the app’s usability, acceptability, and perceived impact, identifying barriers to engaging with the app and to changing behaviour, and gathering suggestions for improvement.</p>                </sec>                                <sec>                    <title>METHODS</title>                        <p>225 parents were enrolled to evaluate a family app for childhood obesity prevention. Users’ experiences with the app and its perceived impact on motivation, self-efficacy, and behaviours were analysed based on two conceptual frameworks: the Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance (RE-AIM) and Non-adoption, Abandonment and Challenges to the Scale-up, Spread and Suitability (NASSS) frameworks. The study took place between March 2020 and April 2021.</p>                </sec>                                <sec>                    <title>RESULTS</title>                        <p>Thematic analysis found that goal-setting, prompts, and sug
AU  - Milne-Ives,M
AU  - Rahman,E
AU  - Bradwell,H
AU  - Baines,R
AU  - Boey,T
AU  - Potter,A
AU  - Lawrence,W
AU  - van,Velthoven MH
AU  - Meinert,E
DO  - 10.2196/preprints.40151
PY  - 2022///
TI  - Acceptability and usability of a mobile app for family obesity prevention and management: A mixed-methods study (Preprint)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.40151
ER  -
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