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Technology-based intervention for healthy lifestyle promotion in Italian adolescents
Federica Fraticelli1, Daniela Marchetti1, Francesco Polcini2
1Dipartimento di Medicina e Scienze dell'Invecchiamento, Università "Gabriele d'Annunzio", Chieti, Italy.
Introduction:
Healthy lifestyle promotion programs are essential to prevent metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Adolescents could represent the ideal target population especially using serious web games.
Objective:
To test the improvement of knowledge about healthy nutrition in adolescents and to analyze participants' enjoyment in playing the web game "Gustavo in Gnam's Planet" in comparison with a leisure web game.
Subjects And Methods:
Sixty-five adolescents were engaged in three supervised group sessions. Measures about healthy food knowledge and games' enjoyment were collected during the three stages of assessment.
Results:
After playing Gustavo in Gnam's Planet, participants significantly improved their knowledge on a healthy diet, compared to the recreational web games; whereas the level of fun experienced while playing the recreational and the educational games was not significantly different.
Conclusions:
Gustavo in Gnam's Planet is an important promising tool, with entertainment property, to promote a healthy lifestyle in Italian adolescents.
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