mHealth - Multiple Lifestyle Behaviors (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

A large proportion of pregnant women have an excessive weight gain during pregnancy. This project aims to support pregnant women to a healthy gestational weight gain.
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Preschool Children

Childhood obesity remains a significant global health challenge. This project aims to promote healthy food and physical activity habits among preschool children. 
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Young adults

Interventions to promote healthy behaviors among young adults is a good investment. Therefore, these projects target high-school- and university students.
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Individuals seeking help at primary healthcare centers

A great deal of the Swedish population has unhealthy lifestyle behaviours and this project focuses on patients in primary healthcare.
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Patients in clinical care

This project aims to support individuals with chronic diseases to learn more about self-care and lifestyle behavior change. 
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Patients with elective surgery

A good health status before surgery decrease the risk for complications after surgery. Therefore, this project aims to support healthy lifestyle behaviours before surgery.

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In the autumn of 2020, we started a seminar series. 

You find the second seminar in this series, further down on this page.

Upcoming seminars 2021

  • Friday February 5th – Marie Löf, "Presentation and lessons learned from three eHealth Forte programs". Invited guest speakers and panel discussion
  • Friday March 5th – Kristin Thomas, "mHealth readiness in health care organizations: what is it and why is it important?"
  • Wednesday March 31st – Marcus Bendtsen, "Research participation effects and other biases revisited"
  • Friday May 7th – Ulrika Müssener, "Digital encounters"
  • Friday June 4th – Preben Bendtsen, "Secondary effects of eHealth innovations: How does eHealth innovations change the power balance between patients and health care professionals?"

Previous seminars in this series

Potential and challenges in digital interventions in 2010, 2020 and 2030

The second seminar in the series from the MoBILE research group at Linköping University is about digital health interventions. Four researchers present how they apply digital tools, such as apps, online platforms and video games to their research, within the areas of physical activity, lifestyle habits, irritable bowel syndrome and acute heart failure.

Possibilities, potential and challenges with digital interventions are also discussed.

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Health and society

What is the impact of environmental and social changes when it comes to health development at individual, group or community level? How can we promote health? These are examples of questions that researchers in Health and society seeks to answer.

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Reproductive Health, Pregnancy and Neonatal

The research focuses among other things on infertility and assisted reproduction, the consequences of obesity during pregnancy and delivery, and treatment of postmenopausal symptoms

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Lifestyle Intervention Implementation Research Group

We aim to develop, evaluate and implement behaviour change interventions that can contribute to an improved public health.

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Division of Society and Health

The division consists of two units (health care analysis and public health science) and contains several subject areas within which research and teaching are conducted.
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Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences

The research areas at HMV include experimental basic research to clinical, social and public health research. We conduct high-quality education in the sought-after care professions.
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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