iN Touch: ODLs Via Mobile Platforms for Youth with Obesity & Depression
San Francisco State University
Youth from low-income backgrounds, are disproportionately affected by obesity. San Francisco State University will examine the potential of collecting observations of daily living (ODLs) via iPod Touch's for low-income teens that are simultaneously managing obesity and depression. Partnering with San Francisco General Hospital's Teen Clinic the project will utilize technology wildly popular among young people to make monitoring ODLs – such as physical activity, food intake, and mood – easier and more convenient, thus, making it more likely that they will enter the requested data at the appropriate times. In addition, the technology will allow the teens to easily share the data with their care team in order to help set health goals, track their progress, and ultimately improve their physical and mental health.
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What the iN Touch team is saying...
“We hope the patients will embrace this new smartphone application to capture information relevant to their health goals. This will put the control of health decisions in the hands of the patient and extend the support of the clinicians beyond the clinic’s boundaries.”
Katherine Kim, M.P.H., M.B.A., Co-Principal Investigator
San Francisco State University
