ISBNPA e and mHealth March 2023 Newsletter

In the newsletter

Welcome from SIG Co-Chairs
Upcoming webinar
Featured Article
ISBNPA 2023 - Sneak Peek
Recent e- & mHealth Publications

Your Co-Chair,

Mavra Ahmed, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Nutritional Sciences

Joannah and Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition

University of Toronto, Canada

Welcome to Our March Newsletter

As the year ‘marches’ on and the days grow long, I am often reminded of how every March brings a hopeful expectation - the experiences we have yet to live.

And we, at e-&mHealth SIG, in anticipation of what is yet to come, in this newsletter, bring to you a timely webinar on the prospects of ChatGPT with Prof. Marcel Salathé. Even as the wind blows cold and the sun shines hot, Dr. Claire Gough, one of our own team members, engages in a lively discussion on social activities and interactions of older adults in Australia.

With the upcoming ISBNPA Annual Meeting in Uppsala, Sweden in June, we also showcase the highlights of the e-&mHealth sessions, give you a sneak peek into an exciting event during our SIG business meeting and provide you with news of our most recent e-&mhealth publications.

Below, dive into the unknown yet the familiar comfort of our technology driven lifestyles!

UPCOMING WEBINAR: APRIL 19, 2023

Healthcare and ChatGPT

April 19, 2023 14:00 UTC

The healthcare industry is continuing to transform and adapt, driven in part by the advent of new technologies and innovations, including artificial intelligence (AI). An emerging technology that is poised to change the healthcare landscape is Chat GPT.

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot, blending large language models that generate responses to user input. It is designed to understand language, making it useful for creating interactive applications. Computers have always raised amazing opportunities to expand the abilities of humans but also at the same time pose unanticipated consequences.

This timely webinar will discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with ChatGPT and AI’s evolution to educate, deliver health information and/or automate tasks and its potential implications for researchers, providers, patients and consumers. LINK TO REGISTER

Let’s meet our speaker:

Associate Professor Marcel Salathe

Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Switzerland

LINK TO BIO

Marcel Salathé is a digital epidemiologist working at the interface of health and computer science. He works at the forefront of artificial intelligence and its application in health and other domains. His lab spun off AIcrowd.com, an AI challenge platform whose goal is to accelerate research on AI across multiple domains, and which is used by organizations such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, SBB, Stanford University, and many others. He is the initiator and co-organiser of the Applied Machine Learning Days, now one of Europe’s largest conferences on the application of machine learning across all domains. He also founded the AIforNutrion.org project, a suite of AI-based platforms, mobile apps, and datasets to advance personalized nutrition.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

Featured Article

LINK TO FULL TEXT

Let’s meet the first author of this article, recently published in BMC Public Health, and learn more about her interests:

Dr. Claire Gough, PhD, Physiotherapy BSc, LINK

Tell us a little about yourself.

I am a Physiotherapist from the UK with experience in musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation. I am currently working in a balanced position at Flinders University and am teaching Digital Health topics to Health Sciences undergraduates. In my research capacity, I am a Research Fellow with ARIIA (Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia) where I am involved in developing evidence-based resources to support Australian Aged care. When I am not working, I am with my children or out on the hockey field!

How did the paper idea come up?

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic we decided to return to a group of older adults who had monitored their activity levels and community participation for 7 days to determine how their behavior would change during and following times of social distancing restriction. The aim of this research was to determine how older people participated in the community and combined accelerometry and GPS to see if we could identify the locations in which older adults were most active. This research project formed the final chapter of my PhD, and although being a pivot (due to COVID-19) adds perspective to not only how behavior changed during this period for older adults but also why the changes were made.

What tips do you have for future researchers who would like to engage in this topic?

Community participation is an interesting topic, very subjective but also measurable using quantitative outcomes. For researchers interested in this area, I would recommend considering a mixed methodological approach as the data from quantitative measures such as accelerometers and GPS were supported and often explained by the perspectives of older adults during semi-structured interviews. I hope that researchers do continue to explore the concept of community participation especially for older adults as it will be important to support healthy ageing in the future.

What did you learn from this paper that will inform your future work?

From this research we learnt that the way in which older people dealt with social distancing restrictions depended on their levels of resilience, past experiences, and to a great extent their personality. To me, this is important to consider for the delivery of health interventions as we know that every person is different and should be treated with personalized care. In my future work, I am interested in how we can provide interventions that support older adults to actively participate in the community, even those who are more introverted and perhaps enjoyed times of lockdown.

Besides this paper, what else have you been up to recently?

I am busy working on resource development with ARIIA, this week we will launch our technology topics which delve into the human factors that need to be considered when integrating technology into aged care. If you are interested in this work you can have a look at what we have developed and our processes using this link: (https://www.ariia.org.au/knowledge-implementation-hub/technology-in-aged-care).

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, or other - best social media platform and why)?

I use Facebook and Instagram for personal use, mainly to share photos of my kids and our dogs.

Twitter is purely professional for me, and it is easy to use and share research which I like.

I like to look at Pinterest for travel and destination inspiration (and to check locations around our latest ISBNPA conferences!)

Would you like to be featured in the next newsletter? Let us know! Email: emhsig.isbnpa@gmail.com

Here is a brief preview of e&mHealth at the upcoming conference in Sweden.

We will have more details and presentations to feature in our next newsletter in May. Conference details can be found at this LINK.

Will you be presenting your work at ISBNPA 2023? Share with us @ISBNPA_emh

e-&mHealth Highlights at ISBNPA 2023

Thursday, June 15th

8:25am - 9:40am - S.1.09 – The need for and feasibility of using ecological momentary assessment and just-in-time adaptive interventions in vulnerable groups

Friday, June 16th

4:20pm - 5:35pm - S.2.39 – Opportunities, challenges and strategies for developing digital health intervention for the first 1000 days

Saturday, June 17th

8:25am - 9:40am - S.3.49 – Artificial Intelligence as Applied Predictive Models for Food Composition Databases

* Mountain Standard Time

e-&mHealth SIG Business Meeting

Stay Tuned on Specifics!

BEST PUBLICATION AWARD

Have you published an innovative e-&mHealth paper relevant to diet, physical activity, sedentary behavior and/or sleep in 2022?

We are now accepting nominations to be considered for our 2023 Publication Award. Submit your nominations here.

Recent e-&mHealth Publications

Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior

Murphy, L. L., Dascombe, B. J., Murawski, B., Rayward, A. T., Brown, W. J., Plotnikoff, R. C., Vandelanotte, C., Holliday, E. G., & Duncan, M. J. (2023). Associations between app usage and behaviour change in a m-health intervention to improve physical activity and sleep health in adults: secondary analyses from two randomised controlled trials. Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviors, 2(1), 4. LINK TO FULL TEXT
Peng, S., Yuan, F., Othman, A. T., Zhou, X., Shen, G., & Liang, J. (2022). The Effectiveness of E-Health Interventions Promoting Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behavior in College Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), 318. LINK TO FULL TEXT
Schoeppe, S., Waters, K., Salmon, J., Williams, S. L., Power, D., Alley, S., Rebar, A. L., Hayman, M., Duncan, M. J., & Vandelanotte, C. (2023). Experience and Satisfaction with a Family-Based Physical Activity Intervention Using Activity Trackers and Apps: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(4), 3327. LINK TO FULL TEXT
Schwarz, A., Winkens, L. H., de Vet, E., Ossendrijver, D., Bouwsema, K., & Simons, M. (2023). Design Features Associated With Engagement in Mobile Health Physical Activity Interventions Among Youth: Systematic Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Studies. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 11, e40898. LINK TO FULL TEXT

Diet/ Nutrition

Rodríguez-González, P., Iglesias, D., Fernandez-Rio, J., & Gao, Z. (2022). Effectiveness of interventions using apps to improve physical activity, sedentary behavior and diet: An umbrella review. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 101711. LINK TO FULL TEXT
Salas-Groves, E., Galyean, S., Alcorn, M., & Childress, A. (2023). Behavior Change Effectiveness Using Nutrition Apps in People With Chronic Diseases: Scoping Review. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 11(1), e41235. LINK TO FULL TEXT
Szinay, D., Forbes, C. C., Busse, H., DeSmet, A., Smit, E. S., & König, L. M. (2023). Is the uptake, engagement, and effectiveness of exclusively mobile interventions for the promotion of weight‐related behaviors equal for all? A systematic review. Obesity Reviews, e13542. LINK TO FULL TEXT
Yabo G, JIANG X, Xijie C, Shi C, Yuee W, Xiuhong Y, Jiamin C, Junsheng P. Effectiveness of mHealth diet interventions in cancer survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing. 2023:100196. LINK TO FULL TEXT

Chronic Diseases

Denova-Gutiérrez, E., González-Rocha, A., Méndez-Sánchez, L., Araiza-Nava, B., Balderas, N., López, G., Tolentino-Mayo, L., Jauregui, A., Hernández, L., & Unikel, C. (2023). Overview of Systematic Reviews of Health Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Children. Nutrients, 15(3), 773. LINK TO FULL TEXT
Jaén-Extremera, J., Afanador-Restrepo, D. F., Rivas-Campo, Y., Gómez-Rodas, A., Aibar-Almazán, A., Hita-Contreras, F., Carcelén-Fraile, M. d. C., Castellote-Caballero, Y., & Ortiz-Quesada, R. (2023). Effectiveness of Telemedicine for Reducing Cardiovascular Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(3), 841. LINK TO FULL TEXT
Moreno-Ligero, M., Moral-Munoz, J. A., Salazar, A., & Failde, I. (2023). mHealth Intervention for Improving Pain, Quality of Life, and Functional Disability in Patients With Chronic Pain: Systematic Review. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 11(1), e40844. LINK TO FULL TEXT
Vlahu-Gjorgievska E, Burazor A, Win KT, Trajkovik V. mHealth Apps Targeting Obesity and Overweight in Young People: App Review and Analysis. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 2023;11:e37716. LINK TO FULL TEXT

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2023 SIG Committee Members

Chair: Mavra Ahmed (Canada)
Co-Chair/ Secretary: Amanda Staiano (USA)
Social Media: Claire Gough (Australia), Chen-Chia Pan (Germany)
Newsletter: Zenong Yin (USA), Chelsea Kracht (USA), Jasmine Petersen (Australia)
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Membership: Bridve Sivakumar (Australia)
Past Chairs: Andre Muller (Singapore), Camille Short (Australia)
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