Promoting Obesity Prevention and Healthy Habits in Childhood: The OCARIoT Experience

Leire Bastida, Gloria Cea*, Ana Moya, Alba Gallego, Eugenio Gaeta, Sara Sillaurren, Paulo Barbosa, Sabrina Souto, Eujessika Rodrigues, Macarena Torrego-Ellacuria, Andreas Triantafyllidis, Anastasios Alexiadis, Konstantinos Votis, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Cleilton Rocha, Lucas Alves, Pedro Malo, Marcio Mateus, Fernando Ferreira, Maria Teresa Arredondo

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Resumen

Objective: Long term behavioural disturbances and interventions in healthy habits (mainly eating and physical activity) are the primary cause of childhood obesity. Current approaches for obesity prevention based on health information extraction lack the integration of multi-modal datasets and the provision of a dedicated Decision Support System (DSS) for health behaviour assessment and coaching of children. Methods: Continuous co-creation process has been applied in the frame of the Design Thinking Methodology, involving children, educators and healthcare professional in the whole process. Such considerations were used to derive the user needs and the technical requirements needed for the conception of the Internet of Things (IoT) platform based on microservices. Results: To promote the adoption of healthy habits and the prevention of the obesity onset for children (9-12 years old), the proposed solution empowers children -including families and educators- in taking control of their health by collecting and following-up real-time information about nutrition, physical activity data coming from IoT devices, and interconnecting healthcare professionals to provide a personalised coaching solution. The validation has two phases involving +400 children (control/intervention group), on four schools in three countries: Spain, Greece and Brazil. The prevalence of obesity decreased in 75.5% from baseline levels in the intervention group. The proposed solution created a positive impression and satisfaction from the technology acceptance perspective. Conclusions: Main findings confirm that this ecosystem can assess behaviours of children, motivating and guiding them towards achieving personal goals. Clinical and Translational Impact Statement - This study presents Early Research on the adoption of a smart childhood obesity caring solution adopting a multidisciplinary approach; it involves researchers from biomedical engineering, medicine, computer science, ethics and education. The solution has the potential to decrease the obesity rates in children aiming to impact to get a better global health.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)261-270
Número de páginas10
PublicaciónIEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Volumen11
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2023

Financiación

FinanciadoresNúmero del financiador
Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
European Union's H2020 Programme777082
OCARIoT
Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa003008

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