Strategies to Engage Adolescents in Digital Health Interventions for Obesity Prevention and Management

Stephanie R. Partridge; Julie Redfern

doi:10.3390/healthcare6030070

Strategies to Engage Adolescents in Digital Health Interventions for Obesity Prevention and Management

Stephanie R. Partridge^*, Julie Redfern^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Obesity is one of the greatest health challenges facing today’s adolescents. Dietary interventions are the foundation of obesity prevention and management. As adolescents are digital frontrunners and early adopters of technology, digital health interventions appear the most practical modality for dietary behavior change interventions. Despite the rapid growth in digital health interventions, effective engagement with adolescents remains a pertinent issue. Key strategies for effective engagement include co-designing interventions with adolescents, personalization of interventions, and just-in-time adaptation using data from wearable devices. The aim of this paper is to appraise these strategies, which may be used to improve effective engagement and thereby improve the dietary behaviors of adolescents now and in the future.

Original language	English
Article number	70
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Healthcare (Switzerland)
Volume	6
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare6030070
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2018
Externally published	Yes

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