Perceptions of Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity for the Development of User-Centered Design Self-Management Tools within the Context of the Chronic Care Model: A Qualitative Study

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• 作者：Amy L. Knoblock-Hahn ; PhD ; MS ; MPH ; RD ; ^{amykhahn@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Ricardo Wray ; PhDAuthor Vitae ; Cynthia M. LeRouge ; PhDAuthor Vitae
• 关键词：Adolescent obesity ; Chronic Care Model ; Consumer health technologies ; User-centered design ; Obesity self-management
• 刊名：Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：116
• 期：6
• 页码：957-967
• 全文大小：415 K

文摘

The Chronic Care Model (CCM) is helpful to illustrate multiple levels of influence in the management of chronic disease, such as overweight and obesity in adolescents. Unfortunately, various constraints create gaps in the management process activities performed within the CCM. Consumer health technologies (CHT) may serve as a linkage between adolescents with overweight or obesity, their parents, and their pediatricians.

Objective

To conduct formative research to qualitatively identify views of adolescents with overweight and obesity on use of consumer health technologies to manage weight loss across chronic care management settings.

Design

As part of a multi-perspective qualitative study, 10 focus groups were conducted with adolescents with overweight and obesity.

Participants/setting

Forty-eight adolescents (15 male, 33 female) aged 12 to 17 years who were current participants of an intensive lifestyle change camp in the summer of 2012 participated in focus groups. All adolescents were classified as overweight (21%) or obese (79%) according to body mass index (BMI) for age charts published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Analysis

All focus groups were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and checked for accuracy. Predefined and open coding were used to analyze transcripts for emerging themes.

Results

Adolescents perceive CHT, with its functional requirements of assistance with restaurant food selection, teaching cooking skills, and providing encouragement and motivation, to be helpful with overweight and obesity self-management. Desired features to carry out these functional requirements included avatars, self-monitoring capabilities, social networking, and rewards.

Conclusion

Our findings largely agree with previously reported parental perceptions of the benefit of CHT for adolescent overweight and obesity self-management and strengthen support for the design and implementation of CHT within the CCM.