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Connected health programs can facilitate patient self-management and encourage consumers to take a more active role in their health. Real-time access to personal health data and targeted patient education encourages healthy lifestyle decisions and wellness efforts. Patient self-management programs, utilizing connected health technologies, are being applied to a number of mounting health crises, including obesity, hypertension and diabetes.
This randomized controlled trial measured the effect of personalized feedback and motivational coaching, via the Virtual Coach computer avatar, on adherence to an activity regime.
BeFit Forever combines the use of activity monitoring ‘wearables’ and Internet-based resources, such as reporting of weekly exercise and food logs, activity charts, incentives, and educational content and resources.
This study found that brief personal counseling and web-based intervention strategies offer the best hope in keeping weight off over three years.
Results from this first-generation study indicate that hand-held computers may be effective tools for increasing initial physical activity levels among underactive adults.
A review of 86 eHealth intervention studies for adults and children that targeted behavior change for physical activity, healthy eating, or both behaviors.
An American Institute for Preventive Medicine White Paper
The authors assessed the efficacy of a Web-based tailored behavioral weight management program compared with Web-based information-only weight management materials.
The authors have developed an animated PDA-based advisor that can engage sedentary adults in dialogues about their physical activity throughout the day.
Participants assigned to an internet-based weight maintenance program sustained comparable weight loss over 18 months compared with individuals who continued to meet face-to-face.
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