What is it about?
Systematic review of eHealth weight management interventions targeting young adults, with a focus on intervention components and outcomes.
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Why is it important?
Young adulthood is a vulnerable period for unhealthy lifestyle adoption and excess weight gain. eHealth offers potential as a cost-effective means of delivering convenient, individually-tailored, and contextually-meaningful interventions to large numbers of young adults. Findings highlight the limited evidence base for eHealth weight management interventions targeting young adults. Further research attention directed toward the development of guiding tools for community trials is warranted.
Perspectives
The complex nature of weight management presents an ongoing challenge for interventionists to identify what works, for whom, how, and when. This narrative evidence synthesis identified 5 key strategies likely to be associated with successful weight management in young adults: self-regulation (goal setting and self-monitoring), tailored or personalized feedback, contact with an interventionist, social support, and behavioral prompts (nudges and reminders) and booster messages.
Taylor Willmott
Griffith University
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This page is a summary of: Weight Management in Young Adults: Systematic Review of Electronic Health Intervention Components and Outcomes, Journal of Medical Internet Research, February 2019, JMIR Publications Inc.,
DOI: 10.2196/10265.
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