- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Physical Activity and Health
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
University of St. Gallen
2021-2025
Background Insufficient physical activity and unhealthy diets are contributing to the rise in noncommunicable diseases. Preventative mobile health (mHealth) interventions may help reverse this trend, but present bias might reduce their effectiveness. Future-self avatar have resulted behavior change related fields, yet evidence of whether such can is lacking. Objective We aimed investigate impact a future-self mHealth intervention on food purchasing examine feasibility novel automated...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Insufficient physical activity and unhealthy diets are contributing to the rise in noncommunicable diseases. Preventative mobile health (mHealth) interventions may help reverse this trend, but present bias might reduce their effectiveness. Future-self avatar have resulted behavior change related fields, yet evidence of whether such can is lacking. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> We aimed investigate impact a future-self mHealth intervention on food purchasing...