Get in the GROOVE

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-163
Author(s):  
Mary Kate Clennan ◽  
Daniella S. Carucci ◽  
Marissa D. Alert ◽  
Shannon Collins ◽  
Erin N. Etzel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Prevention Project ◽  
Enrichment Program

Over the last few decades there has been a rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in American youth. This chapter describes the rationale for the virtual world features of an obesity prevention project that engaged middle-school-aged girls in a 3-week summer science enrichment program. The Get in the GROOVE! program was designed to promote self-efficacy for health behavior change, increase health knowledge, facilitate healthy behaviors related to physical activity and nutrition, encourage a healthy body image, and promote the development and consolidation of a health self-identity. The virtual world, which was explored by the girls via realistic and healthy avatars, supplemented experiences and reinforced curriculum and concepts learned in the physical world component of the program. Findings suggest that a virtual world is a promising platform to promote a health self-identity and healthy lifestyle in children.

Get in the GROOVE

2018 ◽  
pp. 1532-1552
Author(s):  
Mary Kate Clennan ◽  
Daniella S. Carucci ◽  
Shannon E. Chiles ◽  
Marissa D. Alert ◽  
Alyssa LaRoche ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
Prevention Project ◽  
Enrichment Program ◽  
Science Enrichment

Over the last few decades, there has been a rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in American youths. This chapter describes the rationale for the virtual world features of an ongoing obesity prevention project that engages middle school aged girls in a 3-week summer science enrichment program. The Get in the GROOVE! program is designed to promote self-efficacy for healthy behavior change, increase health knowledge, facilitate healthy behaviors related to physical activity and nutrition, encourage a healthy body image, and promote the development and consolidation of a health self-identity. The virtual world component supplements experiences and reinforces curriculum and concepts learned in the physical world component of the program. Preliminary findings suggest that The Get in the GROOVE! program is a promising social environment to motivate healthy habits.

Get in the GROOVE

2017 ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
Mary Kate Clennan ◽  
Daniella S. Carucci ◽  
Shannon E. Chiles ◽  
Marissa D. Alert ◽  
Alyssa LaRoche ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
Prevention Project ◽  
Enrichment Program ◽  
Science Enrichment

Over the last few decades, there has been a rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in American youths. This chapter describes the rationale for the virtual world features of an ongoing obesity prevention project that engages middle school aged girls in a 3-week summer science enrichment program. The Get in the GROOVE! program is designed to promote self-efficacy for healthy behavior change, increase health knowledge, facilitate healthy behaviors related to physical activity and nutrition, encourage a healthy body image, and promote the development and consolidation of a health self-identity. The virtual world component supplements experiences and reinforces curriculum and concepts learned in the physical world component of the program. Preliminary findings suggest that The Get in the GROOVE! program is a promising social environment to motivate healthy habits.

scholarly journals Workplace Healthy Lifestyle Determinants and Wellbeing Needs across the Preconception and Pregnancy Periods: A Qualitative Study Informed by the COM-B Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4154
Author(s):  
Seonad K. Madden ◽  
Claire A. Blewitt ◽  
Kiran D. K. Ahuja ◽  
Helen Skouteris ◽  
Cate M. Bailey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Intervention Development ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
And Control

Overweight and obesity present health risks for mothers and their children. Reaching women during the key life stages of preconception and pregnancy in community settings, such as workplaces, is an ideal opportunity to enable health behavior change. We conducted five focus groups with 25 women aged between 25 and 62 years in order to investigate the determinants of healthy lifestyle behaviors, weight management, and wellbeing needs during the preconception and pregnancy periods in an Australian university workplace. Discussions explored women’s health and wellbeing needs with specific reference to workplace impact. An abductive analytical approach incorporated the capability, opportunity, and motivation of behavior (COM-B) model, and four themes were identified: hierarchy of needs and values, social interactions, a support scaffold, and control. Findings highlight the requirement for greater organization-level support, including top-down coordination of wellbeing opportunities and facilitation of education and support for preconception healthy lifestyle behaviors in the workplace. Interventionists and organizational policy makers could incorporate these higher-level changes into workplace processes and intervention development, which may increase intervention capacity for success.

scholarly journals Attitudes of Jordanian Adolescent Students Toward Overweight and Obesity

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesrin N. Abu Baker ◽  
Nahla Al-Ali ◽  
Ranyah Al-Ajlouni
Keyword(s):  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Positive Attitudes

Background: Obesity is a serious public health problem especially among adolescents. Understanding adolescents’ attitudes toward obesity and healthy lifestyle is a crucial step to develop effective health programs to treat and prevent obesity. Objectives: To examine the attitudes toward overweight and obesity among Jordanian adolescent students and to identify the components of obesity prevention program that the students perceive as important. Methods: A sample of 1000 students in 8th to 10th grades was randomly selected from 16 schools in Irbid, Jordan. A self-reported questionnaire including attitude related questions was used in a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Results: Generally, the students expressed positive attitudes toward obesity; which means that their attitudes were consistent with societal norms in terms of health and social functioning (mean= 3.5, SD=0.39). Furthermore, the students expressed positive attitudes toward lifestyle; which means that their attitudes were consistent with healthy behaviors (mean=3.7, SD=0.58). However, boys had significantly more positive attitudes than girls (p=0.04). The prevalence of overweight and obesity was 23.8%, while obese and non-obese students had similar attitudes toward lifestyle and obesity. Finally, around 20% to 30% of students desired a prevention program out of school time shared with their families and friends and involves eating healthy food and getting more exercise. Conclusion: More efforts are needed to build effective obesity prevention programs that focus on eating healthy diet and getting more exercise considering gender differences.

scholarly journals Back to reality: transition techniques from short HMD-based virtual experiences to the physical world

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Horst ◽  
Ramtin Naraghi-Taghi-Off ◽  
Linda Rau ◽  
Ralf Dörner
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
User Study ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
Common Presentation ◽  
Presentation Media ◽  
Virtual Experiences ◽  
Short Times

AbstractEvery Virtual Reality (VR) experience has to end at some point. While there already exist concepts to design transitions for users to enter a virtual world, their return from the physical world should be considered, as well, as it is a part of the overall VR experience. We call the latter outro-transitions. In contrast to offboarding of VR experiences, that takes place after taking off VR hardware (e.g., HMDs), outro-transitions are still part of the immersive experience. Such transitions occur more frequently when VR is experienced periodically and for only short times. One example where transition techniques are necessary is in an auditorium where the audience has individual VR headsets available, for example, in a presentation using PowerPoint slides together with brief VR experiences sprinkled between the slides. The audience must put on and take off HMDs frequently every time they switch from common presentation media to VR and back. In a such a one-to-many VR scenario, it is challenging for presenters to explore the process of multiple people coming back from the virtual to the physical world at once. Direct communication may be constrained while VR users are wearing an HMD. Presenters need a tool to indicate them to stop the VR session and switch back to the slide presentation. Virtual visual cues can help presenters or other external entities (e.g., automated/scripted events) to request VR users to end a VR session. Such transitions become part of the overall experience of the audience and thus must be considered. This paper explores visual cues as outro-transitions from a virtual world back to the physical world and their utility to enable presenters to request VR users to end a VR session. We propose and investigate eight transition techniques. We focus on their usage in short consecutive VR experiences and include both established and novel techniques. The transition techniques are evaluated within a user study to draw conclusions on the effects of outro-transitions on the overall experience and presence of participants. We also take into account how long an outro-transition may take and how comfortable our participants perceived the proposed techniques. The study points out that they preferred non-interactive outro-transitions over interactive ones, except for a transition that allowed VR users to communicate with presenters. Furthermore, we explore the presenter-VR user relation within a presentation scenario that uses short VR experiences. The study indicates involving presenters that can stop a VR session was not only negligible but preferred by our participants.

Evaluating the Wizards of Motion Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Module

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 350-358
Author(s):  
William J. Montelpare ◽  
Moira N. McPherson ◽  
Kimberly Boardman ◽  
Carlos E. Zerpa
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Grade 5

This study evaluated the level of change in students’ knowledge of and attitudes toward healthy lifestyle behaviors and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) following implementation of a Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Module in Grade 5 science classes. Two classes of students ( n1 = 39) were identified as the intervention group and two classes ( n2 = 31) were designated as controls. The intervention group participated in the module initially, whereas the control groups participated after the data collection was completed. A two-group, pre–post comparison design was used to evaluate results on both a knowledge test and an attitude questionnaire. The results indicated that although both the intervention and the control groups began with similar knowledge and attitudes toward CVD and healthy behaviors, the intervention group demonstrated an improved level of knowledge and attitudes. Further research is needed to determine whether this CVD module could provide a sustained impact on adoption of healthy behaviors among adolescents.

scholarly journals Healthy-lifestyle behaviors associated with overweight and obesity in US rural children

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Tovar ◽  
Kenneth Chui ◽  
Raymond R Hyatt ◽  
Julia Kuder ◽  
Vivica I Kraak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Rural Children ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors

scholarly journals Targeting and tailoring an intervention for adolescents who are overweight

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsti Riiser ◽  
Knut Løndal ◽  
Yngvar Ommundsen ◽  
Nina Misvær ◽  
Sølvi Helseth
Keyword(s):  
Health Behavior ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Aspects

There are important ethical issues to be examined before launching any public health intervention, particularly when targeting vulnerable groups. The aim of this article is to identify and discuss ethical concerns that may arise when intervening for health behavior change among adolescents identified as overweight. These concerns originate from an intervention designed to capacitate adolescents to increase self-determined physical activity. Utilizing an ethical framework for prevention of overweight and obesity, we identified three ethical aspects as particularly significant: the attribution of responsibility for health behavior, liberty to choose, and the effect on the participants’ psychosocial well-being. It is discussed whether and how measures can be taken to deal with these aspects. It seems evident that the ethical aspects are mainly concerned with the vulnerability of adolescents identified as overweight. However, we claim that when individual feedback and counseling is provided, tailored interventions have a unique potential to empower adolescents to make ethically anchored decisions about their own health behavior.

scholarly journals Developing an Obesity Prevention Intervention in Virtual Worlds: The International Health Challenge in Second Life

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameer Siddiqi ◽  
Scherezade K. Mama ◽  
Rebecca E. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
International Health ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
Health Challenge ◽  
Prevention Project ◽  
Prevention Interventions

Virtual worlds (VW) present an exciting range of possibilities for health researchers and practitioners. The value of this technology lies its ability to tap into non-traditional participant pools, to use innovative and effective forms of social interaction, and to facilitate cost-effective solutions to common challenges. The International Health Challenge (IHC) was a health intervention study done entirely in the VW of Second Life (SL) aimed at determining the feasibility and effect of obesity prevention interventions in VWs. The IHC initially started as a strategy to develop a multicultural obesity prevention project in SL as evidenced by a full service build, activities, and participating resident avatars. Using existing resources and extensive social networks, together with volunteer assistance, the IHC flourished into a full scale health intervention with the goals of improving health knowledge, attitudes and behavior among resident avatars. In the absence of clear technological and methodological precedence, our multidisciplinary team developed a novel system of in-world and Web-based interactive measurement tools, data management solutions, and participant recruitment and retention strategies.

scholarly journals SISTEM PAKAR NUTRITION PLANUNTUK ORANG DEWASA DENGAN METODE FORWARD CHAINING BERBASIS WEBSITE

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Adang Nuryana
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socioeconomic Groups ◽  
Forward Chaining ◽  
Daily Diet ◽  
Good Nutrition

The problem of nutrition is still a public health problem in Indonesia. Malnutrition has not been resolved, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has begun to increase, especially in the middle and upper socioeconomic groups in urban areas. This is particularly troubling because it threatens the quality of Human Resources (HR) is indispensable in the future (Depkes RI, 2007). Changes in diet and physical activity resulted in the increasing number of people experiencing nutritional problems, such as overweight/obesity and malnutrition. Diet as the main factor nutritional problems, basically can be overcome by regulating the intake of good nutrition for consumption. But unfortunately, not many people know the setting of a good and proper diet. The Nutrition Plan was created as an expert system in determining balanced nutrition for adults based on body mass index and daily diet using forward chaining inference. This system will recommend what foods are suitable for every adult in accordance with the needs of calories per day in the hope of prevalence rates for the Indonesian people suffering from malnutrition and overweight can be reduced significantly. In addition to facilitating the public, especially normal adults to know the nutritional information in order to achieve a healthy lifestyle.

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