RT Journal Article
T1 Confirmatory Validation of an Evaluation Instrument for Interventions Based on the Healthy Habits App Healthy Jeart with Adolescents
A1 Merino Godoy, María Ángeles
A1 Yot Domínguez, Carmen
A1 Conde Jiménez, Jesús
A1 Calle Cabrera, Ana María de la
AB Mobile devices are widely used among young people, and their use for health promotionis in-creasing. Healthy Jeart is a mobile application aimed at promoting healthy life habits amongpeople aged 8–16 years. The aim of this study was to develop and validate an instrument that allowsevaluating the healthy knowledge, habits and attitudes learned by adolescents aged 12–16 yearsthrough the Healthy Jeart application. Attending to the content of Healthy Jeart, a first version ofthe evaluation instrument was generated. It was subjected to expert judgement. The second versionwas administered to 429 adolescents from six educational centres of Andalusia to carry out thevalidation of the construct through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. After exploration,a six-factor model was confirmed, with a very adequate level of fit and good internal consistency.The six factors were: (1) knowledge about eating and physical activity, (2) habits about eating andphysical activity, (3) emotional health, (4) consumption of alcohol and drugs, (5) social relationshipsand (6) sexual activities and use of technologies. There are at least four instruments that could beused to measure health-promoting behaviours. However, this new instrument was created ad hoc.It measures exactly the results that can be expected. Healthy Jeart will now have a valid and reliableevaluation instrument: Ev-HealthyJRT v.1.0. Young people, teachers and other professionals whocarry out health-promotion interventions based on Healthy Jeart with adolescents will have at theirdisposal an instrument integrated in this app that allows verifying the learning results. However, thevalidated instrument can be used for evaluation in other interventions, as long as the multiple andessential aspects of a healthy living are addressed as in Healthy Jeart
PB MDPI
SN 2075-4426 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20760
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20760
LA eng
NO Merino-Godoy MÁ, Yot-Domínguez C, Conde-Jiménez J, de la Calle-Cabrera AM. Confirmatory Validation of an Evaluation Instrument for Interventions Based on the Healthy Habits App Healthy Jeart with Adolescents. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2022; 12(3):470. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12030470
NO This study is framed within a research project that was first financed by the Board of Healthof the Junta de Andalucía (“Design of a mobile phone application to educate the youth in healthyhabits”, PIN-0445/2016). In 2020 and 2021 funding was continued through chairs. Recently, thecontinuation of the project has been funded within the framework of the Operational Program ERDFAndalusia 2014–2020, named “App para educar a los jóvenes en hábitos saludables basada en laevaluación mediante Ciencia de los Datos” (Ref.: UHU-202062) (title translated into English: “App toeducate young people in healthy habits based on evaluation through Data Science”): The authors would like to thank the educational centers, families and studentswho participated in the data gathering process, as well as the entities that collaborated in this project:Fundación Atlantic Copper, Cei.mar (Campus de Excelencia Internacional del mar), EXMO. ColegioOficial De Enfermería de Huelva, Cátedra Aiqbe, Cátedra de Innovación Social de Aguas de Huelva,Cátedra de la Provincia de la Diputación de Huelva and Cátedra CEPSA. The authors would also liketo thank the following prestigious entities for their support in this project: Association of CommunityNursing (AEC), Spanish Association of Pediatric Nursing (AEEP), Spanish Association of MentalHealth Nursing (AEESME), Andalusian Association of Community Nursing (ASANEC), AndalusianFederation of Families and People with Mental Health Problems (FEAFES), Iberoamerican Networkof Health-Promoting Universities (RIUPS), Andalusian Society of Family and Community Medicine (SAMFyC), European Network of Health-Promoting Universities (REUPS), Spanish Society of Pedagogy (SEP) and the General Nursing Council. The authors would also like to thank the followingprestigious entities for their support in this project: Association of Community Nursing (AEC),Spanish Association of Pediatric Nursing (AEEP), Spanish Association of Mental Health Nursing(AEESME), Andalusian Association of Community Nursing (ASANEC), Andalusian Federation ofFamilies and People with Mental Health Problems (FEAFES), Iberoamerican Network of HealthPromoting Universities (RIUPS), Andalusian Society of Family and Community Medicine (SAMFyC),European Network of Health-Promoting Universities (REUPS), Spanish Society of Pedagogy (SEP)and the General Nursing Council. Jesús Conde-Jiménez, author of this article, is member of the “University Network of Educational Research and Innovation” (REUNI + D) and of the “Ibero-AmericanNetwork for the development and dissemination of Educational Research” (RIDDIE). He appreciatesthe support of both for educational research. All the people and entities that collaborated in thishealth education project, based on new technologies, allow Healthy Jeart to become a live project thatcontributes to the promotion of healthy life habits in educational centers and homes
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026