MoBILE

Health

Inadequate physical activity, unhealthy diets, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption increases the risk of noncommunicable disease and premature death. The responsibility of the healthcare sector to provide support for patients in need of changing unhealthy lifestyle behaviors has been difficult to fulfill with resource intensive methods such as individual and group counseling.

Lifestyle interventions delivered through mobile phones (included in the umbrella term mHealth) is a rapidly emerging research area. The research program MoBILE aims to develop, evaluate and implement seven mHealth lifestyle interventions that can be delivered via the healthcare sector to different target groups, including pregnant women, children, young adults, and patients with elective surgery.

The MoBILE research program is a collaboration between the IMPACT and LiiR research groups at Linköping University. MoBILE is supported by Forte (2018-2020) through a special call in healthcare science.

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Pregnant woman

Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) increases the risks for pregnancy complications, postpartum weight retention and offspring obesity.
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Preschool Children

Childhood obesity remains a significant global health challenge. The preschool age (2-5 years) has been identified as a key period for intervention.
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Young adults

This project will investigate mHealth interventions aimed at promoting improved lifestyle behaviors among high school and university students.
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Individuals seeking help at primary healthcare centers

This project aims to develop an mHealth intervention targeting individuals seeking help at primary healthcare centers, for whom a lifestyle change is part of their treatment.
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Patients in clinical care

This project will focus on self-care disease management and lifestyle behavior change among patients at a medical ward at the county hospital in Motala (Sweden). 
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Patients with elective surgery

The project aims to add support to the existing intervention for reducing alcohol consumption, but also increasing physical activity, and weight reduction when necessary.

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Division of Community Medicine

This division is discontinued from the first of January 2020.
Kvinnlig läkare pekar på medicinska symboler på virtuell skärm.

Department of Medical and Health Sciences

We have a long tradition of interdisciplinary research and education across traditional subject and faculty boundaries. Our subject areas include preclinical research, applied clinical research, health sciences, and community-oriented research.
Medicinska fakulteten

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences conducts research and education within medicine, healthcare and public health.

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