Adherence
An eHealth platform providing continuous monitoring of lifestyle habits and individualized treatment can facilitate effective lifestyle modifications and increase patient adherence to schedules for obesity and diabetes prevention.
To use this system effectively, you must commit to logging your food and exercise daily. The platform is designed to help you stick to a schedule, but you need to be willing to spend a few minutes per meal entering your data. Training on how to use the 'predefined dishes' feature is essential to make this sustainable long-term.
This platform could provide a means to enable lifestyle modifications to take place more effectively in order to increase the adherence of the patients to schedules, maintaining changes in behavior over longer periods of time in order to prevent cardiometabolic risk (especially diabetes) associated with obesity.
Why this rating
The study is a pilot feasibility study with a small sample size (n=15) of healthy volunteers, not a clinical trial on obese/diabetic patients.
Source
PREDIRCAM eHealth Platform for Individualized Telemedical Assistance for Lifestyle Modification in the Treatment of Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiometabolic Risk Prevention: A Pilot Study (PREDIRCAM 1 >
Cintia González et al. · Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology · 2013
DOI 10.1177/193229681300700411
Related findings · Adherence
- Regular physical activity (at least 150 minutes/week of moderate-intensity) reduces all-cause and cardiovascular mortality by 20-30% and lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes by 25-35%.Strong
- Increasing physical activity from a sedentary lifestyle to an active one in middle adulthood significantly reduces the risk of coronary events compared to remaining sedentary.Strong
- Resistance exercise is the only intervention capable of consistently restoring muscle function and strength in sarcopenia, partially overcoming age-related anabolic resistance.Strong
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