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- Title
Uso de las TIC para fomentar estilos de vida saludables en niños/as y adolescentes: el caso del sobrepeso.
- Authors
de Diego-Cordero, Rocío; Fernández-García, Elena; Badanta-Romero, Bárbara
- Abstract
Introduction: There are currently education programs that promote healthy lifestyles for children and adolescents, but even do that is demonstrated the continuous use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by this segment of the population, they are not used as tools for achieving these beneficial lifestyles. Objective: To show the need of incorporating activities based on the use of information and communication technologies to combat and control obesity and / or overweight in health education programs for children and adolescents. Material and method: Queries to books and access to studies and articles through bibliographic search in databases (Scopus, Pubmed and Google Scholar), finally selected 7 articles published in the last five years. Results: Previous studies showed the ineffective interventions with the child and adolescent population, in regard to education of healthy habits because of the wrong chose of the appropriate methods. The use of ICT in these interventions, leads to more effective results in the population. Conclusion: As health professionals, we must deepen our understanding of this population, helping to create strategies that help to use ICT in a reasonable, even and logical, but above all healthy way.
- Publication
Revista Espanola de Comunicacion en Salud, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
1989-9882
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20318/recs.2017.3607