A User-Centered Mobile Interface Design, Promoting Physical Activity in the Covid 19 Pandemic’s Sedentary Lifestyle

Author(s):  
Zahra Alizadeh Elizei
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Syahirah W Samsudin ◽  
◽  
Kenneth Sundaraj ◽  
Md. Anamul Islam

Author(s):  
Nada Sahlab ◽  
Laura Wiebelitz ◽  
Peter Schmid ◽  
Florian Reichelt ◽  
Nasser Jazdi ◽  
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Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (19) ◽  
pp. 1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Bascur ◽  
Pedro Rossel ◽  
Valeria Herskovic ◽  
Claudia Martínez-Carrasco

The most important risk factors for cardiovascular health are smoking and a sedentary lifestyle. This paper proposes Evitapp, a mobile application designed to promote physical activity and smoking cessation. The application does not use additional tracking devices, rather relying on phone sensors to track physical activity, and on users logging their behavior. Nineteen users tested the application over 10 days. Participants found the applications easy to use and used them approximately once per day. Even though the habits of the experiment participants did not change significantly, those who used the smoking cessation application reported decreasing their smoking habit.


Author(s):  
Michael Ong ◽  
Dewi Ratnaningrum

Millennials are currently the most prominent age demographic in Indonesia, a generation that has the highest number of people compared to other age groups that wholly consist of peope in productive age. As the prominent demographic group, their behaviour and lifestyle is an important trend that needs to be observed. Their 2 most dominant lifestlye are: 1. Food, a big part of their lifestyle, Millennials spend most of their money on food, especially on dining out, and; 2. Sedentary Lifestyle, 84% of Jakarta citizen’s profession can be categorized as a job with passive physical activity, furthermore the advancement of digital technology has made daily activity less active. These things needs to be paid attention to, as both of them are the main cause of obesity, which itself is a major cause of 4 of 5 illness that caused death in Indonesia, and can be observed in 37.1% of adults in Jakarta. To mitigate this, a program is designed to solve this issue preventively, by instilling a healthy bevahiour in their daily life. The chosen design method is typology. Function-wise it is based on wellness center, which promotes health not only by medicine but also through building a healthy lifestyle. Shape-wise, is to design a building which passively promotes healthy lifestyle by its shape. Based on these, the proposed program is Integrated Health Facility, which is an integrative medicine based  facility. The main focus of this program is diet nutrition and physical activiy, with the main program categorized as food, pyhsical activity, clinic, and health community. Stair is the main concept, used as the main circulation and split level design, to passively encourage physical activity. Abstrak Generasi Millennial adalah sebuah generasi yang sedang mendominasi di Indonesia, sebagai generasi yang keseluruhannya merupakan usia produktif dengan persentase terbesar dibandingkan dengan generasi usia lainnya. Sebagai generasi yang dominan, gaya hidup dan perilaku mereka layak menjadi perhatian. Dua hal yang dominan adalah: 1. Makanan, sebuah bagian besar dari gaya hidup mereka, terlihat dari pengeluaran Generasi Millennial untuk makanan, khususnya untuk makan di luar, merupakan pengeluaran terbesar mereka, dan; 2. Sedentary Lifestyle, 84% profesi penduduk Jakarta merupakan profesi yang tidak aktif, selain itu dengan kemajuan teknologi digital membuat aktivitas sehari-hari semakin menjadi kurang aktif. Kedua gaya hidup ini perlu menjadi perhatian, karena keduanya merupakan penyebab utama dari Obesitas, yaitu penyebab 4 dari 5 penyakit penyebab kematian tertinggi di Indonesia, serta diderita oleh 37.1% penduduk dewasa Jakarta. Sebagai upaya penyelesaian dari masalah ini, sebuah program dan fasilitas dirancang untuk menyelesaikan masalah ini secara preventif, yaitu melalui menumbuhkan kebiasaan gaya hidup sehat. Metode perancangan yang digunakan adalah tipologi. Secara fungi mengikuti trend wellness center, yaitu kesehatan tidak hanya melalui pengobatan, tetapi juga melalui gaya hidup sehat. Selain itu secara bentuk, yaitu menghasilkan bangunan yang melalui bentuknya mendorong gaya hidup sehat. Berdasarkan ini, bangunan yang dihasilkan adalah Integrated Health Facility, yaitu sebuah fasilitas kesehatan yang secara menyeluruh. Fokus utama dari fasilitas ini merupakan nutrisi (makanan) dan aktivitas fisik, dengan program utama yang ditawarkan dapat dikategorikan menjadi makanan, aktivitas fisik, klinik serta komunitas kesehatan. Tangga menjadi konsep utama dari bangunan, yaitu sebagai sirkulasi dan permainan split level, untuk mendorong aktivitas fisik secara pasif.


Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 53-56
Author(s):  
Borja Del Pozo-Cruz ◽  
Jesús Del Pozo-Cruz ◽  
Francisco Javier González Limones ◽  
Rosa María Alfonso Rosa

Objetivo. En este estudió se pretendió un objetivo doble; 1) Constatar las diferencias entre niños asmáticos con sobrepeso y normopeso en cuanto a CVRS y cantidad de actividad física y sedentarismo y 2) Determinar la relación existente entre cantidad de actividad física, sedentarismo e IMC y su influencia en la CVRS de esta población en Sevilla. Método. Se usó un diseño de cohorte que incluyó a 69 niños en edad escolar con asma persistente controlado. Las medidas incluidas en el estudio fueron: el cuestionario PAQL(S), para evaluar la CVRS de los niños y el cuestionario IPAQ-A, para evaluar la cantidad de actividad física y sedentarismo de los niños. También se calculó el IMC y se determinó si el participante estaba en normopeso o sobrepeso. Resultados. Los niños con sobrepeso obtuvieron peores valores en CVRS e IPAQ-A que sus pares con normopeso. Además se observaron correlaciones positivas entre el IMC y la cantidad de sedentarismo y negativas entre el IMC y también entre éste y el valor en las escalas de valoración de la CVRS. Conclusión. El IMC afecta negativamente a la CVRS a los niños asmáticos en edad escolar. Palabras clave: niños asmáticos, enfermedad crónica, hábitos de vida, ejercicio físico.Abstract: Objective. The aim of this study was: 1) To determine the differences between normal-weight asthmatic children and overweight asthmatic children in terms of HRQoL and amount of physical activity and sedentary and 2) To determine the relationship between amount of physical activity, sedentary and BMI and their influence on the HRQoL of this population in Seville. Method. We used a cohort design study that included 69 school-age children with controlled persistent asthma. The measures included in the study were: the questionnaire PAQL (S), to assess the HRQoL of children and the IPAQ-A questionnaire to assess the amount of physical activity and sedentary lifestyle of children. BMI was also calculated and determined if the participant was of normal-weight or overweight. Results. Overweight children scored worse on HRQoL and IPAQ-A values   than their peers with normal-weight. Positive correlations were also observed between BMI and the amount of sedentary lifestyle. Negative correlations were observed between BMI and the amount of physical activity and also negative correlations were observed between BMI and HRQoL. Conclusion. BMI negatively affect HRQoL in school- age asthmatic children. Key words: asthmatic children, chronic disease, lifestyles, physical exercise.


Author(s):  
Pasha Shaikh ◽  
Ramesh Bansode

Acharya sushruta said to be swastha whoes dosha,dhatu, agni, mala are in the state of in equilibrium along with mental, sensory and spiritual happiness. Medovridhi is a condition is of excess body fat for their height, medovridhi can affect any person from young children to older adults. there are many causes of medovridhi such as overeating, genetics, hormones, lack of physical activity, sedentary lifestyle, junk food etc.  Among them sedentary life-a kind of life which has less or no physical activity at all e.g. desk jobs, sleeping too much, sitting for long hours without reasons. Junk food like-like fried chicken, ice-cream, pizza, sandwiches, chips etc. is an unhealthy diet that is high in trans and saturated fats. In obesity (medovridhi) there is imbalance state of med dhatu which affect health of a person and prevalence rate of medovridhi is very high (16.6 in Maharashtra). Medovridhi is a burning issue for all the countries, it causes the number of health problems. Ayurvedic acharyas had mentioned the above condition and explained in detailed causes, sign, symptoms, and treatment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Martha A. Sánchez-Rodríguez ◽  
Mariano Zacarías-Flores ◽  
Elsa Correa-Muñoz ◽  
Alicia Arronte-Rosales ◽  
Víctor Manuel Mendoza-Núñez

Oxidative stress (OS) increases during the human aging process, and the sedentary lifestyle could be a prooxidant factor. In this study, we determine the effect of sedentary lifestyle on OS during the aging process in Mexican women. A longitudinal study of two-year follow-up was carried out with 177 community-dwelling women (40-69 y) from Mexico City. We measured as OS markers plasma malondialdehyde, erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), total plasma antioxidant status, uric acid level, antioxidant gap, and SOD/GPx ratio. To define OS using all the markers, we defined cut-off values of each parameter based on the 90th percentile of young healthy subjects and, we calculated a stress score (SS) ranging from 0 to 7, which represented the intensity of the marker modifications. All the women answered a structured questionnaire about prooxidant factors, including physical activity specially the type of activity, frequency, and duration, and they answered Spanish versions of self-assessment tests for establishing dysthymia and insomnia as potential confounders. Principal component and Poisson regression analysis were used as statistical tools, being two-year OS the primary outcome. The OS was considerate as SS ≥ 4 and sedentary lifestyle as <30 min/day of physical activity, beside several prooxidant factors and age that were covariables. SS is higher in sedentary lifestyle women after the two-year follow-up; although, the difference was statistically significant only in older women. Four principal components were associated with the OS, and 7 out of 8 prooxidant factors were important for the analysis, which were included in the Poisson model. The predictive factors for OS were the sedentary lifestyle (adjusted PR = 2.37, CI95%: 1.30–4.30, p < 0.01 ), and age, in which the risk increases 1.06 (CI95%:1.02–2.11, p < 0.01 ) by each year of age. Our findings suggest that a sedentary lifestyle increases the OS during the aging in Mexican women.


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