Striking the right balance: co-designing the Health4Me healthy lifestyle digital health intervention with adolescents.

Raeside, R; Todd, A; Wardak, S; Gardner, L; Champion, KE; Kang, M; Mihrshahi, S; Steinbeck, K; Redfern, J; Partridge, SR; Health Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS),; Health4Me Team,

Striking the right balance: co-designing the Health4Me healthy lifestyle digital health intervention with adolescents.

Raeside, R Todd, A Wardak, S Gardner, L Champion, KE Kang, M

Mihrshahi, S Steinbeck, K Redfern, J Partridge, SR Health Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS), Health4Me Team,

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Citation:: Res Involv Engagem, 2023, 9, (1), pp. 114
Issue Date:: 2023-12-07

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dc.contributor.author	Raeside, R
dc.contributor.author	Todd, A
dc.contributor.author	Wardak, S
dc.contributor.author	Gardner, L
dc.contributor.author	Champion, KE
dc.contributor.author	Kang, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9438-2518
dc.contributor.author	Mihrshahi, S
dc.contributor.author	Steinbeck, K
dc.contributor.author	Redfern, J
dc.contributor.author	Partridge, SR
dc.contributor.author	Health Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS),
dc.contributor.author	Health4Me Team,
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-15T01:27:05Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-28
dc.date.available	2024-01-15T01:27:05Z
dc.date.issued	2023-12-07
dc.identifier.citation	Res Involv Engagem, 2023, 9, (1), pp. 114
dc.identifier.issn	2056-7529
dc.identifier.issn	2056-7529
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/174428
dc.description.abstract	BACKGROUND: Adolescents are navigating a period of rapid growth and development within an era of digitalization. Mobile phone ownership among adolescents is nearly ubiquitous, and this provides an opportunity to harness text messaging to promote a healthy lifestyle and reduce chronic disease risk factors. Inclusion of adolescents throughout the design process has been recognized as essential for engagement and future implementation of such interventions. This study aimed to co-design a bank of text messages to promote a healthy lifestyle which are useful, acceptable, and engaging for adolescents aged 12-18 years old. METHODS: Iterative, mixed-methods design with consumer partnership. Co-design occurred over three stages: text message development, text message review and final refinement and testing. The text message development included literature searches and consumer partnership with an established youth advisory group (n = 16). Participants who gave e-consent participated in text message review. Demographic characteristics were collected, and quantitative surveys were distributed to adolescents (n = up to 50) and health professionals (n = up to 30), who rated text message content for understanding, usefulness and appropriateness (total score out of 15). Final refinement was completed by the research team to edit or remove messages which had low scores and to assess readability and interactivity of the text messages. RESULTS: The Heath Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS) identified the top six lifestyle health issues for young people today in relation to chronic disease prevention, which became the key content areas for the text message bank and drafted new text messages. Following text message development, 218 messages were available for review. Adolescents (n = 18, mean age 16.3 [SD 1.4]) and healthcare professionals (n = 16) reviewed the text messages. On average, all reviewers found that the text messages were easy to understand (mean = 13.4/15) and useful (mean = 12.7/15). Based on scoring and open ended-feedback, 91 text messages were edited and 42 deleted. The final text message bank included 131 text messages. The overall program is suitable for a seventh-grade reading level, and interactive. CONCLUSIONS: This study describes the process of effectively engaging adolescents to co-design a text message bank intervention, which are useful, acceptable and engaging for an adolescent audience. The effectiveness of the co-designed text message bank is currently being tested in the Health4Me RCT.
dc.format	Electronic
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Springer Nature
dc.relation.ispartof	Res Involv Engagem
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1186/s40900-023-00524-4
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.classification	4206 Public health
dc.title	Striking the right balance: co-designing the Health4Me healthy lifestyle digital health intervention with adolescents.
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	9
utslib.location.activity	England
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health/Public Health
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Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Adolescents are navigating a period of rapid growth and development within an era of digitalization. Mobile phone ownership among adolescents is nearly ubiquitous, and this provides an opportunity to harness text messaging to promote a healthy lifestyle and reduce chronic disease risk factors. Inclusion of adolescents throughout the design process has been recognized as essential for engagement and future implementation of such interventions. This study aimed to co-design a bank of text messages to promote a healthy lifestyle which are useful, acceptable, and engaging for adolescents aged 12-18 years old. METHODS: Iterative, mixed-methods design with consumer partnership. Co-design occurred over three stages: text message development, text message review and final refinement and testing. The text message development included literature searches and consumer partnership with an established youth advisory group (n = 16). Participants who gave e-consent participated in text message review. Demographic characteristics were collected, and quantitative surveys were distributed to adolescents (n = up to 50) and health professionals (n = up to 30), who rated text message content for understanding, usefulness and appropriateness (total score out of 15). Final refinement was completed by the research team to edit or remove messages which had low scores and to assess readability and interactivity of the text messages. RESULTS: The Heath Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS) identified the top six lifestyle health issues for young people today in relation to chronic disease prevention, which became the key content areas for the text message bank and drafted new text messages. Following text message development, 218 messages were available for review. Adolescents (n = 18, mean age 16.3 [SD 1.4]) and healthcare professionals (n = 16) reviewed the text messages. On average, all reviewers found that the text messages were easy to understand (mean = 13.4/15) and useful (mean = 12.7/15). Based on scoring and open ended-feedback, 91 text messages were edited and 42 deleted. The final text message bank included 131 text messages. The overall program is suitable for a seventh-grade reading level, and interactive. CONCLUSIONS: This study describes the process of effectively engaging adolescents to co-design a text message bank intervention, which are useful, acceptable and engaging for an adolescent audience. The effectiveness of the co-designed text message bank is currently being tested in the Health4Me RCT.

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