Journal article
Internet of Things-enabled technologies for weight management in children and adolescents: Protocol for a systematic review
- Abstract:
-
Background: Childhood obesity is a serious global issue, leading to increased medical spending on obesity-related diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. There is a need for health care services that link health behavior to risk factors, such as diet and physical activity, and that provide better advice and feedback to users, which Internet of Things–enabled technologies could facilitate.
Objective: The objective of the systematic review will be to identify available Internet of Things–enabled technologies for weight management of children and adolescents (users younger than 18 years). It will also aim to understand the use, effectiveness, and feasibility of these technologies.
Methods: We will search the Medline, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, ProQuest Central, and IEEE Xplore Digital Library databases for studies published after 2010, using a combination of keywords and subject headings related to health activity tracking, youth, and Internet of Things. In addition, a Google search to identify grey literature will be conducted. Two authors will independently screen the titles and abstracts identified from the search and accept or reject the studies according to the study inclusion criteria. Any discrepancies will then be discussed and resolved. The quality of the included studies will be assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) checklists. Data from included studies will be extracted into a predesigned form to identify the types of devices or apps, Internet of Things applications, and health outcomes related to weight management.
Results: A preliminary search on Medline returned 484 results. The publication of the final systematic review is expected in mid-2020.
Conclusions: The effectiveness and feasibility of physical activity trackers and consumer wearables for different patient groups have been well reviewed, but there are currently no published reviews that look into these technologies in the wider Internet of Things context. This review aims to address this gap by examining Internet of Things–enabled technologies that are designed for youth weight management and thus inform further research and clinical studies to reduce childhood obesity.
International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID): PRR1-10.2196/16930
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Preview, Version of record, 79.2KB, Terms of use)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.2196/16930
Authors
- Publisher:
- JMIR Publications
- Journal:
- JMIR Research Protocols More from this journal
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 3
- Article number:
- e16930
- Publication date:
- 2020-03-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-12-16
- DOI:
- ISSN:
-
1929-0748
- Language:
-
English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:1079276
- UUID:
-
uuid:a7342f12-fe01-4e80-8d50-f3239c51ef8e
- Local pid:
-
pubs:1079276
- Source identifiers:
-
1079276
- Deposit date:
-
2019-12-24
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Lam et al
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © Lam et al. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (http://www.researchprotocols.org), 31.03.2020. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Research Protocols, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.researchprotocols.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record