Breaking habits or breaking habitual behaviours? Old habits as a neglected factor in weight loss maintenance

B Gardner, R Richards, P Lally, A Rebar, T Thwaite… - Appetite, 2021 - Elsevier
Maintaining weight loss requires long-term behaviour change. Theory and evidence around
habitual behaviour–ie, action triggered by impulses that are automatically activated upon …

Mobile apps for healthy living: Factors influencing continuance intention for health apps

M Yan, R Filieri, E Raguseo, M Gorton - Technological Forecasting and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The desire to maintain a healthy lifestyle is growing amongst consumers globally as well as
the adoption of health apps. Prior research investigates what affects adoption of a health …

Recruiting and retaining young adults: what can we learn from behavioural interventions targeting nutrition, physical activity and/or obesity? A systematic review of the …

MC Whatnall, MJ Hutchesson, T Sharkey… - Public Health …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Objective: To describe strategies used to recruit and retain young adults in nutrition, physical
activity and/or obesity intervention studies, and quantify the success and efficiency of these …

Digital health promotion: promise and peril

A Koh, DW Swanepoel, A Ling, BL Ho… - Health Promotion …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Summary The World Health Organization defines health promotion as process of enabling
people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their …

Automated behavioral workplace intervention to prevent weight gain and improve diet: the ChooseWell 365 randomized clinical trial

AN Thorndike, JL McCurley, ED Gelsomin… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Personalized interventions that leverage workplace data and environments
could improve effectiveness, sustainability, and scalability of employee wellness programs …

Determinants of acceptance of patients with heart failure and their informal caregivers regarding an interactive decision-making system: a qualitative study

B Zippel-Schultz, A Palant, C Eurlings, CF Ski, L Hill… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective Heart failure is a growing challenge to healthcare systems worldwide.
Technological solutions have the potential to improve the health of patients and help to …

An integrated system for mobile image-based dietary assessment

Z Shao, Y Han, J He, R Mao, J Wright, D Kerr… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Accurate assessment of dietary intake requires improved tools to overcome limitations of
current methods including user burden and measurement error. Emerging technologies …

mHealth technology and CVD risk reduction

MI Cajita, Y Zheng, JK Kariuki, KM Vuckovic… - Current atherosclerosis …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To review existing mHealth-based interventions and examine
their efficacy in reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Recent Findings A total …

Efficacy of mobile health care in patients undergoing fixed orthodontic treatment: a systematic review

EM Choi, B Park, HJ Noh - International Journal of Dental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives We performed a systematic review of studies that assessed the efficacy of mobile
health care in patients undergoing fixed orthodontic treatment, in an attempt to obtain …

Saliency-aware class-agnostic food image segmentation

SK Yarlagadda, DM Montserrat, D Güera… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Advances in image-based dietary assessment methods have allowed nutrition professionals
and researchers to improve the accuracy of dietary assessment, where images of food …