Work

Parents' perception toward the adoption of mobile application for monitoring their children's obesity status

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Obesity among children around the world has now reached an alarming level. Obesity affects one out of every ten children or teenagers all over the world. Parents should be the one responsible for their children well-being. With the advent of mobile technology, various mobile app have been developed to help people to manage their daily lives. This paper discusses on the development and evaluation of the Body Mass Index (BMI) Percentile Monitor, a mobile app for monitoring children's obesity status by parents. The results of the evaluation indicated that the parents highly rated the application in terms of usefulness, ease of use, hedonic motivation, outcome/future Use and satisfaction.

Source: Universiti Utara Malaysia Institutional Repository (Universiti Utara Malaysia)

Authors: Mustafa Moosa Qasim, Abdul Nasir Zulkifli, Mazida Ahmad, Mazni Omar, Juliana Aida Abu Bakar

Language: English

Topic: Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1682741048

FWCI: 0.839

Cites: 35

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10