1. Striking the right balance: co-designing the Health4Me healthy lifestyle digital health intervention with adolescents.
- Author
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Raeside, R, Todd, A, Wardak, S, Gardner, L, Champion, KE, Kang, M, Mihrshahi, S, Steinbeck, K, Redfern, J, Partridge, SR, Health Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS), Health4Me Team, Raeside, R, Todd, A, Wardak, S, Gardner, L, Champion, KE, Kang, M, Mihrshahi, S, Steinbeck, K, Redfern, J, Partridge, SR, Health Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS), and Health4Me Team
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: Adolescents are navigating a period of rapid growth and development within an era of digitalization. Mobile phone ownership among adolescents is nearly ubiquitous, and this provides an opportunity to harness text messaging to promote a healthy lifestyle and reduce chronic disease risk factors. Inclusion of adolescents throughout the design process has been recognized as essential for engagement and future implementation of such interventions. This study aimed to co-design a bank of text messages to promote a healthy lifestyle which are useful, acceptable, and engaging for adolescents aged 12-18 years old. METHODS: Iterative, mixed-methods design with consumer partnership. Co-design occurred over three stages: text message development, text message review and final refinement and testing. The text message development included literature searches and consumer partnership with an established youth advisory group (n = 16). Participants who gave e-consent participated in text message review. Demographic characteristics were collected, and quantitative surveys were distributed to adolescents (n = up to 50) and health professionals (n = up to 30), who rated text message content for understanding, usefulness and appropriateness (total score out of 15). Final refinement was completed by the research team to edit or remove messages which had low scores and to assess readability and interactivity of the text messages. RESULTS: The Heath Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS) identified the top six lifestyle health issues for young people today in relation to chronic disease prevention, which became the key content areas for the text message bank and drafted new text messages. Following text message development, 218 messages were available for review. Adolescents (n = 18, mean age 16.3 [SD 1.4]) and healthcare professionals (n = 16) reviewed the text messages. On average, all reviewers found that the text messages were easy to understand (mean
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- 2023