RT Journal Article
T1 Promoting Obesity Prevention and Healthy Habits in Childhood: 												The OCARIoT Experience
A1 Bastida, Leire
A1 Cea, Gloria
A1 Moya, Ana
A1 Gallego, Alba
A1 Gaeta, Eugenio
A1 Sillaurren, Sara
A1 Barbosa, Paulo
A1 Souto, Sabrina
A1 Rodrigues, Eujessika
A1 Torrego-Ellacuria, Macarena
A1 Triantafyllidis, Andreas
A1 Alexiadis, Anastasios
A1 Votis, Konstantinos
A1 Tzovaras, Dimitrios
A1 Rocha, Cleilton
A1 Alves, Lucas
A1 Malo, Pedro
A1 Mateus, Marcio
A1 Ferreira, Fernando
A1 Arredondo, Maria Teresa
AB 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.
SN 2168-2372
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/5047
UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/5047
LA eng
NO Bastida , L , Cea , G , Moya , A , Gallego , A , Gaeta , E , Sillaurren , S , Barbosa , P , Souto , S , Rodrigues , E , Torrego-Ellacuria , M , Triantafyllidis , A , Alexiadis , A , Votis , K , Tzovaras , D , Rocha , C , Alves , L , Malo , P , Mateus , M , Ferreira , F & Arredondo , M T 2023 , ' Promoting Obesity Prevention and Healthy Habits in Childhood : The OCARIoT Experience ' , IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine , vol. 11 , pp. 261-270 . https://doi.org/10.1109/JTEHM.2023.3261899
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2023 IEEE.
NO This work was supported in part by the smart childhood Obesity CARing solution using IoT potential (OCARIoT) Project, European Union's H2020 Programme, under Grant 777082; and in part by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation through Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP), under Grant 003008.
DS TECNALIA Publications
RD 28 sept 2024