Mobile Applications and Healthy Habits of Adolescents, a Strange Couple: Pilot Study of the Efficacy of the Healthy Jeart App

María Ángeles Merino-Godoy, Carmen Yot-Domínguez, Patricia Villaciervos-Moreno and Emilia Moreno-Sánchez
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María Ángeles Merino-Godoy: Faculty of Nursing, University of Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, 21007 Huelva, Spain
Carmen Yot-Domínguez: Faculty of Education, University of Seville, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Patricia Villaciervos-Moreno: Faculty of Education, Valencian International University, 46002 Valencia, Spain
Emilia Moreno-Sánchez: Faculty of Education, University of Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, 21007 Huelva, Spain

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: The present study aims to analyse the healthy habits of a group of adolescents before and after an educational intervention using the Healthy Jeart mobile app. This is the first pilot study on Healthy Jeart, based on a single intervention with experimental and control groups. The participants were secondary education students in the third and fourth years, from an educational centre in Huelva (Spain). They were distributed between a control group and an experimental group. Information about their habits was obtained through a questionnaire prepared from the HSBC (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children) instrument, which was administered before and after the intervention. Although the results do not indicate a substantial change in the habits of the participants, there were some intragroup differences. In the experimental group, a difference was obtained in the feeling of being fit and healthy. The global perspective on health of the app would explain this change.

Keywords: health promotion; habits; child–adolescent population; mobile applications; educational intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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