Changing the tide: an Internet/video exercise and low-fat diet intervention with middle-school students

Frenn, Marilyn; Malin, Shelly; Brown, Roger; Greer, Yvonne; Fox, Jaime; Greer, Jennifer; Smyczek, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2004.04.003

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“…Multimedia can be used to present exercise interventions economically, engagingly, effectively, and efficiently (5,6). This is important for pregnant and postpartum women, who have significant exercise barriers such as fatigue, limited time, child care, and lack of exercise knowledge (7).…”

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Development and evaluation of a multimedia CD-ROM for exercise during pregnancy and postpartum

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Patient Education and Counseling

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Objective-To meet the need for an interactive product on exercise during pregnancy and postpartum, we developed and evaluated a personally-tailored multimedia CD-ROM.Methods-Pregnant and postpartum women, who were randomly assigned to either the experimental group (PregXercise™ CD-ROM) or the control group (CD-ROM with neutral content), navigated through the CD-ROM for 1 hour. Main outcomes were exercise self-efficacy and knowledge.Results-In analyses of covariance, compared with the control group, the experimental group had significant increases in self-efficacy and knowledge.Conclusion-The multimedia CD-ROM delivering information about exercise motivation, guidelines, and prescription was effective in improving exercise self-efficacy and knowledge.Practice Implications-Our preliminary results illustrate that healthcare professionals and researchers may use interactive multimedia for improving exercise behavior and related outcomes with pregnant and postpartum women.

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Section: Significance and Purposementioning

confidence: 99%

Development and evaluation of a multimedia CD-ROM for exercise during pregnancy and postpartum

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Brewer

Raalte

et al. 2008

Patient Education and Counseling

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“…8 Until now only three computertailored interventions on eating behaviours for adolescents have been evaluated. [9][10][11] In the first study, 9 the effectiveness of a tailored intervention to reduce fat intake was investigated in families with two adolescents. After 4 weeks, there was a reduction in the percentage of energy from fat, but only in those adolescents with high baseline fat intake.…”

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“…The intervention was effective for reducing the percentage of energy from fat. 10 In the third intervention, 11 all students in the classroom went through a single computer-tailoring intervention on fat intake on individual computers. The intervention showed a decrease in fat intake in two subsamples, namely girls in technical-vocational education and in boys and girls following general education who had read the whole advice provided.…”

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A feasibility study of using a diet optimization approach in a web-based computer-tailoring intervention for adolescents

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Objective: Adolescents are an interesting but neglected target group in obesity prevention. We assessed the feasibility of using a diet optimization approach for computer-tailored nutrition interventions for adolescents. Method: Development of an optimization model based on the public health approach to diet optimization. On the basis of food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) of 48 adolescents (14-17 years) optimized diets were calculated. Results: The optimization calculations for all cases resulted in individual advice. On a total of 137 items included in the FFQ, the individualized advice included changes in a minimum of 36 and a maximum of 88 items (mean: 61 items), recommendations for changes in the food items ranged from less than 1 g day À1 up to 1660 g day À1 . In almost all cases a higher intake of fruit and vegetables was recommended; some unexpected advice was also generated (for example, to decrease the consumption of brown bread and to increase the consumption of pizza). The strengths and weaknesses of the optimized diets are discussed. Conclusion: Using the optimization approach is a step forward in nutrition tailoring interventions but the model used in the present feasibility study still needs to be refined.

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“…55 Additional studies have found web-based programs to result in increases in physical activity and improved dietary intake in children as young as 8 years of age. [56][57][58][59] There are many web sites with information related to child obesity, some with interactive games to increase children's nutritional and physical activity knowledge and skills. Most are designed to promote health and prevent obesity, rather than as interactive sites to help children who are already overweight, and few sites contain online tracking components.…”

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Web-Based Family Intervention for Overweight Children: A Pilot Study

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Background: Research has shown the efficacy of family-based behavioral interventions for overweight children, but a major difficulty is access to effective treatment programs. The objective of this study was to develop and test the initial feasibility and efficacy of a web-based family program for overweight 8-to 12-year-old children.Methods: A website was created using concepts from effective family-based behavioral programs and input from focus groups with overweight children, parents, and pediatricians. The website provided information about obesity and healthy lifestyles, assessment of dietary and physical activity habits, interactive dietary and physical activity games, and instruction in goal-setting and monitoring of goals. Children selected a dietary and physical activity goal and a daily step goal with pedometers. Feasibility and pilot testing over 4 weeks was conducted with 24 overweight children referred by a physician. Outcomes were z-BMI, healthy eating and physical activity, and intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy for weight control.Results: Mean number of logins over the study period was 11.4 for the study sample. Eighteen families (75%) returned for the follow-up assessment. Pre-post analyses for these participants showed improvements in intrinsic motivation, ( p = 0.05), self-efficacy ( p = 0.025), physical activity ( p = 0.005), and healthy lifestyle behaviors ( p = 0.001). Comparisons between high and low users of the program indicated that high users reduced their BMI while low users increased their BMI over time ( p = 0.02); high users also improved their dietary intake relative to low users ( p = 0.04). Consumer satisfaction ratings were high.Conclusion: These pilot findings suggest this is a feasible approach for treatment of overweight children and that children who used the web program frequently improved their BMI and dietary intake.

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Changing the tide: an Internet/video exercise and low-fat diet intervention with middle-school students

Cited by 116 publications

References 31 publications

Development and evaluation of a multimedia CD-ROM for exercise during pregnancy and postpartum

Development and evaluation of a multimedia CD-ROM for exercise during pregnancy and postpartum

A feasibility study of using a diet optimization approach in a web-based computer-tailoring intervention for adolescents

Web-Based Family Intervention for Overweight Children: A Pilot Study

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