Grant: Catalyst Grant: Personalized Health Catalyst Grants

One in three Canadian children are overweight or obese and children generally are less physically active, and eat less nutritiously than previous generations. Medical treatment of obesity has been proven to be largely ineffective, and therefore, prevention is a priority. This study will develop and test an mHealth App designed to support existing childhood obesity prevention initiatives (Live 5-2-1-0 and Learning for Life) that are currently being implemented in the healthcare and school settings in BC. The App will support goal setting, tracking of healthy behaviours, and will provide personalized evidence-based healthy messaging. The App will optimize information exchange between health providers/teachers and patients/students by generating reports and summaries on health behaviour change.