CoviHealth: A Pilot Study with Teenagers
in Schools of Centre of Portugal
María Vanessa Villasana1(B) , Ivan Miguel Pires2,3,4 , Juliana Sá1,5 , Nuno M. Garcia2 ,
Eftim Zdravevski6 , Ivan Chorbev6 , and Petre Lameski6
1 Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-506 Covilhã, Portugal
maria.vanessa.villasana.abreu@ubi.pt, julianasa@fcsaude.ubi.pt
2 Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal
impires@it.ubi.pt, ngarcia@di.ubi.pt
3 Computer Science Departement, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal
4 UICISA:E Research Centre, School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu,
Portugal
5 Hospital Center of Cova da Beira, 6200-251 Covilhã, Portugal
6 Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University Ss Cyril and Methodius,
1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
{eftim.zdravevski,ivan.chorbev,petre.lameski}@finki.ukim.mk
Abstract. Obesity is one of the most common problem that can be avoid with the
correct education of the teenagers. There are different methods, but the use of the
mobile devices to promote the creation of social challenges is important, because
the teenagers act mainly in groups. The use of questionnaires, challenges and
gamification purposes may promote the use of this type of mobile applications by
teenagers. It is a special population that needs the adoption of different interactive
technologies. The studies available are not validated by healthcare professionals.
First of all, we started to analyze the related work of obesity problem, mobile
applications, and different methodologies adopted with teenagers. By the end,
seven students participated in the study with the performance of visualization
of daily tips and curiosities, answering questionnaires, monitoring of physical
activity and gamification. The teenagers were satisfied with the strategies adopted,
but this study was affected by the pandemic situation around the world. In general,
the participants were satisfied with the use of the mobile, and they would like to
use it in the future for the improvement of their nutrition and physical activity
habits.
Keywords: Teenagers · Mobile application · Nutrition · Physical activity ·
Health · Education
1 Introduction
Nowadays, it was verified that the teenagers have an inadequate and little knowledge
about healthy nutrition and physical activity. They spend a lot of time with technological
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equipment and did not practice physical activity [1, 2]. It causes different healthcare
problems in the teenagers, including the obesity [3–5]. One of the factors for the poor
habits of the teenagers are socioeconomic factors [6]. Still, the reduces physical activity
and the energy intake is other important factor in this type of population [5].
The obesity is caused by the excessive body fat with the difference between energy
expenditure and calories intake [7]. It caused the development of several diseases, including hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, hypertriglyceridemia, low levels of High-Density
Lipoprotein, and hypertension [8]. However, the performance of physical activity is
the best method to spend calories and control the weight [9].
The prevalence and incidence of obesity and overweight in teenagers was proposed in
the National Health Plan - Review and Extension to 2020 [10]. Portugal is not exception,
and the National Program for the Promotion of Healthy Eating was created to promote
the combat of the obesity. One of the strategies that Portugal adopted was to attempt to
increase the levels of physical activity in young people and teenagers [11].
A Body Mass Index (BMI) for age with more than a typical deviation above the
median established in child growth patterns and obesity as being higher than two standard
deviations above the norm established in child growth patterns was created by the World
Health Organization (WHO) for individuals aged between 5 and 19 years old [7]. This
population is considered as overweight between the 85th and 95th percentile, and obese
above the 95th percentile [12]. Thus, the WHO verified, in 2016, that the number of
teenagers that are overweight or obese exceeded 340 millions of individuals [7].
The purpose of this study is to use a mobile application for the promotion of healthy
nutrition and physical activity habits by teenagers during a trial of five weeks. During
the time of the study, different tips, curiosities, challenges, and questionnaires were
proposed for the seven teenagers that participated in the study. The teenagers were aged
between 13 and 16 years old, and they are students in the public schools in the Covilhã,
and Fundão municipalities (Portugal) [14]. The mobile application includes different
methodologies to captivate the attention of the teenagers, and it also includes methods
to stimulate the physical activity. The gamification, personalized messages, and medical
control are some of the methodologies implemented. The teenagers answered different
questionnaires about physical activity and nutrition during the study. The analysis of the
different answers was performed to evaluate the knowledge level of the teenagers.
This study revealed that the use of a mobile application is a good method to promote
health nutrition and physical activity habits in teenagers. It was also verified that these
population valued gamification techniques and the medical control. The effects of the
use of mobile application should be reevaluated after the pandemic situation.
This paragraph and the introductory section. Section 2 presents the related work
about the obesity, mobile applications for nutrition and physical activity and different
methodologies used with this population. The methodology of CoviHealth project is
presented in Sect. 3. Next, Sect. 4 presented the analysis of the initial questionnaire,
the answers in the questionnaires about nutrition and physical activity, and the feedback questionnaire. The discussion of this study, and comparison with other studies are
presented in Sect. 5. The conclusions are presented in Sect. 6.
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2 Related Work
Obesity is considered a chronic, complex and multifactorial disease that is unfavorable
for health, being characterized by an excessive increase in body fat that results from the
imbalance of caloric expenditure and energy intake [7]. This imbalance is favorable to the
development of several metabolic complications, namely insulin resistance, which leads
to hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, namely hypertriglyceridemia and low levels of High
Density Lipoprotein (HDL), and arterial hypertension [8], also affecting the intestinal
microbiota [15] that results from the interaction of several genetic, environmental and
lifestyle factors [16].
The reduction and control of the incidence and prevalence of overweight and obesity
in the child and school population is one of the goals proposed for 2020 in the National
Health Plan - Review and Extension to 2020 [10]. Thus, in Portugal, the DirectorateGeneral for Health created the National Program for the Promotion of Healthy Eating,
in which public health strategies for combating obesity are addressed and created.
For children, adolescents and young adults between 5 and 19 years old, the World
Health Organization (WHO) defines excess weight as the Body Mass Index (BMI) for
age with more than a typical deviation above the median established in HDL child growth
patterns. In turn, obesity is defined as being greater than 2 typical deviations above the
median established in child growth patterns [7]. Thus, children, adolescents and young
adults aged 13 to 19 between the 85th and 95th percentiles are overweight. It is further
mentioned that with a percentile higher than the 95th percentile, they are classified as
obese [12].
In 2018, the study [17], which presents data collected between 2015 and 2016 in
Portugal, concludes that the prevalence of obesity increases with increasing age, being
less prevalent in children and higher in the elderly. There are 3 inflection points in the
prevalence of obesity throughout life, being them at 5, at 15 and, finally, at 75 years
old. This study resulted in approximately 17.3% of children, under the age of 10 years,
having pre-obesity and 23.6% of adolescents, aged between 10 and 18 years, having
pre-obesity. 7.7% of children and 8.7% of adolescents were obese.
In 2017, the WHO estimates that, as adolescents are older, the level of physical
activity decreases [18]. However, when analyzing the answers related to the question
related to the accomplishment of “at least one hour of moderate to vigorous activity every
day”, this was performed by 25% of the children of 11 years, but for those of 15 years, the
number drops to 16% [18]. The authors also conclude that the probability of sedentary
behavior increases with age, with only 50% of 11-year-old children reporting watching
2 or more hours of television during the week, against 63% of those who are older [18].
In order to understand what type of functionalities are the most frequently present in
mobile applications aimed at nutrition, physical activity and health, in the general population, a search was carried out in the Google Play Store, since the mobile application
would be developed for the Android operating system [19]. The following keywords “nutrition”, “diet”, “calories”, “health”, “exercise” and “weight” were used for this search.
250 applications resulted from this search [19]. Thus, only 73 were analyzed, where the
remaining were excluded by previously defined criteria [19]. The 73 applications were
classified, verifying that most of them corresponds to applications related to “diet and
nutrition” (52%) [19]. The remaining mobile applications are distributed by “health”
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(25%), “physical activity” (12%) and education (11%) [19]. We also analyzed and categorized the different functionalities, including “diet”, “anthropometric parameters”,
“social”, “physical activity”, “medical parameters”, and, “vital parameters” [19]. From
the study of the 73 mobile applications, we verified that the most features encountered
in the mobile applications were weight, height, age, gender, objectives, calculation of
calories needed, diet diary, database of food and calories, calories burned and calculation
of intake of calories [19].
Finally, in order to discover the most used methodologies to obtain the participation
and attention of young people with the use of mobile applications to improve health, a
search for different studies was made. A search was made in different digital libraries,
such as Springer, IEEE Xplore, and PubMed. Initially, we found 13,218 articles, where,
after the exclusions, 9 articles were remaining due to the criteria that we established
previously. These studies indicate the different techniques to attract the attention of
young people, where, generally, it includes questionnaires and gamification techniques.
The different features used in the different studies include the paper diary, the digital
diet diary, the digital exercise diary, the use of notifications, the diet plan, the record of
physical activity, the use of photos, the use of games, and the use of SMS.
3 Methods
Before this study, a methodology was proposed with the use of a mobile application
[14], which was built with the aim of monitoring, advising and educating young people
about health. This mobile application was named as CoviHealth, where young people could register their diet, physical activity, medication plans, anthropometric data,
alerts and objectives. In addition, the teenagers could accept the challenges related to
physical activity and fill the weekly questionnaires. The main screen will show a daily
curiosity/suggestion related to nutrition and physical activity, and their effects on health.
As the project was developed in Covilhã, Portugal, two schools were proposed to
collaborate, such as Escola Quinta das Palmeiras (Covilhã), and Escola Secundária com
3º Ciclo Ensino Básico do Fundão (Fundão). The selected students were aged between
13 and 18 years old, where 68 were selected from Fundão, and 105 were selected from
Covilhã.
Between the 173 students, only 155 of them were validated, because the remaining
reported an invalid email or they do not have a smartphone with Android operating
system. During the study 28 students downloaded the mobile application from Google
Play Store, where one was excluded by age range and execution of the questionnaires
in the mobile application.
All validated students used the mobile application for 5 weeks, where 18 curiosities
and 10 suggestions related to nutrition or physical activity were presented. In addition,
6 challenges in relation to the number of steps and calories were provided. Thus, 4
questionnaires related to the curiosities and suggestions provided were presented to the
teenager.
At the end of the first five weeks, the mobile application was evaluated by the teenager
with a questionnaire. All questionnaires were statistically analyzed by quantitative and
qualitative variables. Finally, the analysis was performed by groups, applying the Chisquare test with the contingency tables.
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4 Results
4.1 Sample Analysis
The population included in the study tries to have equivalent number of people from
different genders, where the population has 14 of female gender, and 12 of male gender.
In addition, the individuals are distributed by different ages, i.e., between 13 and 18 years
old.
In this study is also studied the presence of pathologies in the different subjects,
where only 19% of teenagers reported that have some diseases, but only 8% reported
that are taking some medication.
The different teenagers have between 1.43 m and 1.87 m of height, but they have
major incidence between 1.60 m and 1.70 m of height. Related to the weight, they
reported that have between 35 kg and 80 kg, but they have major incidence between
40 kg and 50 kg. Thus, it is possible to calculate the Body Mass Index (BMI) with these
values, reporting that 67% reported the normal level of BMI, i.e., between 18.5 and 24.9.
4.2 Analysis of Population Habits
In relation to the sleeping habits, most of the students are sleeping between 8 and 9 hours
per night, and the majority is not consuming alcoholic beverages. Fortunately, 65%
of analyzed teenagers practice sports, but only 62% are frequenting the gymnasium,
where also 62% of teenagers practice exercise during 1 or 2 h for each day. Regarding
the sports played, 39% of the teenagers play football, and 23% of the teenagers play
basketball. Regarding the group sports, 35% of students prefer individual sports, and
31% of teenagers prefer team sports.
In general, the teenagers involved in the study did not have specific diet, where only
62% of individuals are consuming one or two pieces of fruit per day. However, only 4%
are consuming candies between 5 to 6 times a week. In contrast, 54% of teenagers are
drinking only between 0.5 L and 1 L of water per day.
4.3 Analysis of Weekly Questionnaires
The participants had available in the mobile application 4 weekly questionnaires,
answered by the end of each week of the study and they are related to the different tips
and curiosities presented during each week. Table 1 shows the answers on the different
questionnaires. The correct answers are highlighted in Table 1.
Regarding the different questionnaires, in average, 54% of the answers of the questionnaire 1 are correct, 39.75% of the answers in the questionnaire 2 are correct, 73% of
the answers in the questionnaire 3 are correct, and 50% of the answers in the questionnaire
4 are correct.
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Table 1. Different answers of the different questionnaires.
Questionnaires
1
2
3
4
Questions
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Answer 1
13%
13%
60%
60%
42%
25%
58%
25%
8%
0%
17%
0%
14%
43%
29%
14%
Answer 2
20%
7%
40%
13%
17%
42%
42%
8%
92%
17%
8%
58%
43%
0%
29%
14%
Answer 3
47%
7%
7%
8%
17%
42%
0%
17%
75%
25%
0%
57%
29%
0%
Answer 4
20%
73%
20%
33%
17%
25%
0%
67%
0%
17%
43%
0%
14%
71%
4.4 Analysis of Feedback Questionnaire
Related to the monitoring of physical activity components of the mobile application, the
users are mainly satisfied with the different functionalities, but most of the students that
answered the questionnaire said that they maintained the level of physical activity during
the study. In addition, most of the teenagers are satisfied with the use of the training plan
functionality. Related to the food, most of the students maintained their food habits.
Related to the educational features, the use of tips and curiosities are useful for
most of the students, and the use of questionnaires are mainly reasonably useful to the
improvement of the knowledge about education of nutrition and physical activity. In
general, most of the students answered that the use of gamification motivated the use of
the mobile application. The mobile application also allows the medical control, where
most of the teenagers said that it is important.
In general, people are reasonably satisfied with the mobile application, and a large
part of the students involved in the study said that will use the proposed mobile
application.
5 Discussion
Due to the presence of similar studies in the literature, the results obtained by our study
can be discussed with them. The CoviHealth project was implemented for 5 weeks, and
only one study found was implemented in the same number of weeks and a similar number of teenagers [20]. Spook et al. [21] and Reid et al. [22] are two studies implemented
during only one week. In [23], a larger number of teenagers participated in the study
during only 4 weeks. Finally, Lee et al. [24] performed a study with a similar number
of teenagers than CoviHealth project for 12 weeks.
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It was verified that one study improved the diet of the teenagers with mobile applications [20]. Still, the dietary habits did not changed in the study [23]. The satisfaction
with the methodology implemented was higher in the study [25]. However, in the study
[24], the teenagers are clearly satisfied, and, in study [23], the teenagers are not satisfied.
Regarding our study, the majority of the teenagers agreed to the use of mobile applications. Thus, similarly to our study, in [21], the teenagers said that they would continue
using the mobile application.
Therefore, the use of mobile applications by teenagers is not recommended until
between 14 and 16 years old [26], and we need to act in earlier age to promote healthier habits. The technological equipment, chu as mobile devices, is a good manner to
prometon good habits in the different communities of teenagers.
The technology allows the healthcare professionals to monitor the teenagers anywhere, and it can be explained to the teenager in a consultation. Different validated methods are important to captivate the attention of the teenagers, including the pedometer,
and the measurement of the energy expenditure [27–30].
Finally, CoviHealth project demonstrated that the use of a mobile application
increases the good habits for physical activity and nutrition. However, this study was
implemented in a pandemic situation and it affected the results obtained as well as the
low number of teenagers that completed the study. The main limitation was that the
mobile application was only focused in nutrition and physical activity. The technologies
captivate this type of population.
6 Conclusions
The CoviHealth application intends to educate the teenagers about physical activity and
nutrition with daily tips and curiosities, questionnaires, gamification, challenges, and
other functionalities. The teenagers win points with the use of the mobile application to
earn discounts in different stores.
At the beginning this study involved 26 teenagers, but we only analyzed the seven
teenagers that finalized the study. The analyzed teenagers are aged between 13 and
16 years old, and they answered the feedback questionnaire. The study has the duration
of five weeks with the availability of four weekly questionnaires about the tips and
curiosities provided by the mobile application.
Regarding the different functionalities of the mobile application, the teenagers are
mainly satisfied with the physical activity monitoring, tips and curiosities, and questionnaires. By the way, they choose the medical control as a relevant feature, and they
indicated that the gamification functionalities motivated the use of the mobile application.
It was concluded that the use of the mobile application for the promotion of healthy
nutrition and physical activity habits is reliable. However, due to the pandemic situation,
this study should be performed with a more diverse population and an larger samples in
the analysis.
Acknowledgements. This work is funded by FCT/MEC through national funds and co-funded
by FEDER – PT2020 partnership agreement under the project UIDB/EEA/50008/2020 (Este
trabalho é financiado pela FCT/MEC através de fundos nacionais e cofinanciado pelo FEDER,
no âmbito do Acordo de Parceria PT2020 no âmbito do projeto UIDB/EEA/50008/2020).
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This work is also funded by National Funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and
Technology, I.P., within the scope of the project UIDB/00742/2020.
The work presented in this paper is also supported by the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius
in Skopje, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering.
This article is based upon work from COST Action IC1303–AAPELE–Architectures, Algorithms and Protocols for Enhanced Living Environments and COST Action CA16226–SHELDON–Indoor living space improvement: Smart Habitat for the Elderly, supported by COST
(European Cooperation in Science and Technology). More information in www.cost.eu.
Furthermore, we would like to thank the Politécnico de Viseu for their support.
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