Publications by authors named "Stephanie Ruth Partridge"
Background: Online food delivery services (OFDS) enable individuals to conveniently access foods from any deliverable location. The increased accessibility to foods may have implications on the consumption of healthful or unhealthful foods. Concerningly, previous research suggests that OFDS offer an abundance of energy-dense and nutrient-poor foods, which are heavily promoted through deals or discounts.
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- The study investigates how promoting public health messages may impact adolescents' future health outcomes and emphasizes the need to understand what drives their engagement with these issues.
- Researchers conducted online focus groups with Australian adolescents aged 13-19 to identify key public health concerns and analyze barriers and enablers related to engagement.
- Findings revealed that mental health and climate change were top concerns, with engagement influenced by personal connections and digital media, while barriers included feelings of powerlessness and lack of support.
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- - The study explores the use of mobile ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to evaluate the impact of online food delivery (OFD) on food choices and consumption among young individuals in Australia, amid concerns that these services may promote unhealthy eating habits.
- - A pilot study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of two different EMA sampling methods (signal-contingent and event-contingent) with participants aged 16 to 35, revealing similar compliance rates for both methods but challenges in usability of the app.
- - Results showed that while both sampling methods yielded comparable compliance, participants found the EMA app difficult to use, impacting their overall satisfaction with the study's process and findings.
Mobile-based ecological momentary assessment (mEMA) offers a novel method for dietary assessment and may reduce recall bias and participant burden. This review evaluated mEMA methodology and the feasibility, acceptability and validity as a dietary assessment method in young people. Five databases were searched from January 2008 to September 2021 for studies including healthy young people aged 16-30 years and used mEMA for obtaining dietary intake data, food consumption behaviours and/or contextual factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The incidence of obesity among adolescents is increasing. Text messages are a primary communication form for adolescents and potentially a scalable strategy for delivering population health interventions.
Objective: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of text message interventions in reducing BMI in adolescents and describe characteristics that are common to effective interventions.
Background: Emerging evidence indicates mobile technology-based strategies may improve access to secondary prevention and reduce risk factors in cardiac patients. However, little is known about cardiac patients' use of mobile technology, particularly for health reasons and whether the usage varies across patient demographics.
Objective: This study aimed to describe cardiac patients' use of mobile technology and to determine variations between age groups after adjusting for education, employment, and confidence with using mobile technology.
Background: The unprecedented rise in obesity among young adults, who have limited interaction with health services, has not been successfully abated.
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the maintenance outcomes of a 12-week mHealth intervention on prevention of weight gain in young adults and lifestyle behaviors at 9 months from baseline.
Methods: A two-arm, parallel, randomized controlled trial (RCT) with subjects allocated to intervention or control 1:1 was conducted in a community setting in Greater Sydney, Australia.