Research of the usage of health-behavior improving mobile applications
| Autor: | Dijana Karuovic, Cintia Kovács, Zsolt Námesztovszki, Lenke Major, György Molnár |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Medical education
Index (economics) Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Addiction education Physical fitness 020207 software engineering Sample (statistics) 02 engineering and technology 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy Variety (cybernetics) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Perception Health care 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering business Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | 2019 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom). |
| DOI: | 10.1109/coginfocom47531.2019.9089953 |
| Popis: | The spread of smartphones provides a variety of opportunities for educating users on a healthy lifestyle. Healthcare applications can also be an important aid in shaping young people’s health behavior. The aim of the study is to examine whether health behavior and the variables determining the general health status of students can be related to the frequency of using mobile health-care applications. Hungarian and Serbian students from four higher education institutions participated in the survey, 329 students in total. The research examines students’ perceptions of their own health and assesses participants’ BMI index, physical fitness characteristics, harmful addictions (smoking), sports and eating habits. The examination of the students in the sample revealed that the health behavior of students was satisfactory. There was a significant difference in the BMI index between students in different countries. The results show that students use smart applications confirming the authors’ assumptions, most of them use at least 6-10 applications. With most of the students, some of the applications used are some kind of health-care applications. Research results have demonstrated that there is a correlation between health behavior and the use of health-promoting applications. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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