Parental Involvement in mHealth Intervention Just as Important as Child’s, Study Says

AJMC August 20, 2022
Hayden E. Klein

Children whose parents were more engaged with an intervention focused on obesity saw greater results compared with children whose parents were less engaged.

For mobile health (mHealth) interventions targeting childhood obesity, it is just as important for a parent to engage as it is a child for an intervention to be successful, according to a study published in Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Due to a lack of studies characterizing mHealth user typologies derived from digital phenotypes or how users interact with specific features of an intervention, the study authors conducted a randomized controlled trial to see if user characteristics and health outcomes differed across phenotypes.

Their study included 214 parent-child pairs who used the Aim2Be mHealth app between 2019...

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