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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Publications

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@article{Meinert:2020:10.2196/18068,
author = {Meinert, E and Rahman, E and Potter, A and Lawrence, W and Stenfors, T and van, Velthoven M},
doi = {10.2196/18068},
journal = {JMIR Research Protocols},
pages = {1--10},
title = {Usability of the mobile digital health ‘NoObesity’ app for families and healthcare professionals: a feasibility study},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/18068},
volume = {9},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Background: Almost a quarter or more than a fifth of children in the United Kingdom (UK) are overweight or obese by the time they start school. The UK Department of Health and Social Care has updated national policy for combating childhood obesity in 2018, with critical outcomes centred on sugar and caloric consumption reduction. Health Education England has developed two digital apps for families with children up to 15 and for their associated health care professionals (HCPs) to provide a digital learning resource and tool aimed at encouraging healthy lifestyles to prevent obesity.Objective: This feasibility study assesses Health Education England’s NoObesity app usability and acceptability to undertake activities to improve families’ diet and physical activity. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the app’s influence on self-efficacy and goal setting and to determine what can be learned to improve its design for future studies, should there be evidence of adoption and sustainability. Methods: The study population will include 20-40 families and their linked health care professionals. Recognising issues related to digital access associated with socioeconomic status (SES) and impact on information technology (IT) use, study recruitment will be regionally focused on a low SES area. The study will last nine-months; three months intervention period and six months follow up. The evaluation of feasibility, acceptability, and usability will be conducted using the following scales and theoretical frameworks: 1. The system usability scale; 2. The Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework; 3. Bandura’s model of health promotion; and 4. The Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to the Scale-up, Spread, and Suitability (NASSS) framework. App use will be captured and quantitatively analysed for net use patterns (e.g. number of screens viewed, number of logins, cumulative minutes using the app, number of plans made
AU  - Meinert,E
AU  - Rahman,E
AU  - Potter,A
AU  - Lawrence,W
AU  - Stenfors,T
AU  - van,Velthoven M
DO  - 10.2196/18068
EP  - 10
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1929-0748
SP  - 1
TI  - Usability of the mobile digital health ‘NoObesity’ app for families and healthcare professionals: a feasibility study
T2  - JMIR Research Protocols
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/18068
UR  - https://www.researchprotocols.org/2020/7/e18068/
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/81060
VL  - 9
ER  -
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