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Location-based Smartphone Technology to Guide College Students Healthy Choices Phase II
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Healthy Detours App and Fat Secret App for Overweight and Obesity and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 300 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
College students are in a newly independent phase of life; many of whom encounter unhealthy dietary decision- making, barriers to physical activity, and poor sleep behaviors. Healthy Detours is a location-based smartphone application tailored in real-time to a student's schedule and locale, and aims to guide students toward healthier eating, exercise, and lifestyle choices as a way to prevent the onset of damaging and costly health outcomes. Through a randomized control trial, this Phase II project will test the effectiveness of an evidence-based smartphone application that will provide students with on-demand, location-specific information about healthy lifestyle choices.
Study Details
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Interventions
The app features: * Immediate and relevant feedback at the point of decision-making to reinforce healthy lifestyle behaviors within a population making crucial lifestyle choices. * User-centered and location-specific tailored information to provide users with information to improve future decision-making through activity tracking. * Multiple health-tracking features (i.e., diet and PA tracking, and accelerometry for PA and sleep) that will aid in self-monitoring.
Freely available app for weight loss and nutrition. Includes food and exercise diaries; calorie counting.