Designing and development of a mobile applica...

Designing and development of a mobile application and its efficacy assessment with respect to change inNutritional knowledge of hundred obese females of Udaipur city

Author Name : Sehar Siddiqui

ABSTRACT

Background :-Present study was conducted to administer Overweight and Obesity by suggesting various nutritional and lifestyle intervention programs through planning,designing,and formulating mobile-based Mhealth technique.The study intended to assess the efficacy of the designed health mobile application on the nutrition knowledge related with obesity of the selected subjects.

Methods:-To accomplish the above objective hundred obese women residing in Udaipur city were selected and studied. Their nutritional knowledge was assessed using a structured data collection tool. Mobile Application was then developed by gathering authentic nutritional information’s from different sources,books, internet, journals. Application was then tested and efficacywith respect to change in knowledge score was assessed on 90, 120, 150, 180 day.

Results:-Observational pre assessmentdata revealed that the mean knowledge score on 0 day was 3. 23± 1. 42 i. e 95% were scoring low.it was evident from the observation that the mean mediumknowledge score on 0 day was 0. 42 ±1. 85i. e 5%.It was evident from the data that the mean highknowledge score on 0 day was 0± 0 i. e 0%.Later on 90, 120, 150, 180 day there was a drastic change which was visible in the knowledge score majority of the respondents got medium scores and very few got low and high score.

Keywords :Intervention Package,Lifestyle Assessment, Mhealth Technology