@article{10272/20753,
year = {2022},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20753},
abstract = {Educational institutions and their agents play a fundamental role in improving people’s
health literacy and quality of life. We intend here to describe and justify an educational resource
embodied in an application for mobile devices developed through a subsidized project by the Ministry
of Health (Government of Andalusia); the purpose of this app is to educate young people in healthy
habits. The application was designed to be easily used in both smartphones and tablets with the aim
of achieving good physical, psychological and social health. The project comprises several phases and
the results we have so far show that, from an early age, health institutions and educational settings
must work in partnership, increasing health literacy levels. This cooperative work combined with the
use of this innovative approach presents an important potential for change in the lifestyles of younger
generations. This type of intervention took on a special role in the pandemic context, allowing for the
maintenance of the educational stimulus in a safe context},
organization = {Project of the three-year period 2017–2019. This study was funded by the Health Council
of the Government of Andalusia, in compliance with Resolution of 20 December 2016, of the General
Secretariat of Healthcare Research, Development and Innovation, in the call of grants for the funding
of Research in Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Development and Innovation in Andalusia for the year
2016, with file number PIN-0445-2016 and a total duration of 36 months. This study was funded by
EPIT 2021 (University of Huelva, Spain). Currently it is also supported by the Andalusian ERDF
Operational Program 2014–2020 (reference UHU-202062)
The authors would like to thank the families and educational centers for their
disinterested participation in the data gathering process, as well as the entities that collaborated in this project, funded by the Health Council of the Government of Andalusia, whose economic
and general support keeps this project going: Atlantic Copper Foundation, Cei.mar (Campus de
Excelencia Internacional del mar), the Huelva School of Nursing, Aiqbe Professorship, Huelva Waters
Social Innovation Professorship, Huelva Province Council Professorship and CEPSA Professorship.
The authors would also like to thank the following prestigious entities for supporting this project:
Community Nursing Association (EC), Spanish Association of Pediatric Nursing (AEEP), Spanish
Association of Mental Health Nursing (AEESME), Andalusian Association of Community Nursing
(ASANEC), Andalusian Federation of Families and Persons with Mental Health Problems (FEAFES),
Iberoamerican Network of Health-Promoting Universities (RIUPS), Andalusian Society of Family
and Community Medicine (SAMFyC), European Network of Health-Promoting Schools (ENHPS),
Spanish Society of Pedagogy (SEP) and General Nursing Council. All persons and entities who
collaborated in this project of health education, based on new technologies, allow Healthy Jeart to
become a living project that can help in educational centers and homes, which are currently the true
health educators},
publisher = {MDPI},
title = {An App about Healthy Habits as an Educational Resource during the Pandemic},
doi = {10.3390/healthcare10010148},
author = {Merino Godoy, María Ángeles and Moreno Sánchez, Emilia and Gago Valiente, Francisco Javier and Costa, Emília Isabel and Sáez Padilla, Jesús},
}