A pilot study is being conducted in the Temple phone fitness Street Hospital to test the application of lifestyle, and 15 high school students already use.
At the time of the pilot study was completed in September 2014 la fitness phone number, about 126 teenagers have used.
The people involved in the project received an application of behavior change phone and its results will be compared with the participants in the childhood obesity program W82GO hospital phone fitness.
"There is an investigation into four key areas, including better nutrition, reaching the recommended 60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous activity, improve sleep and increase self-esteem and confidence," said Grace O'Malley (box), registered team physiotherapist obesity in Temple street.
She designed the application with Dr Amanda Burls, Department Unit of Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford, and young people are phone fitness encouraged to work towards daily goals.
"They use technology daily in their lives every day, so a teenager said, why do not communicate over the phone?"
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"There is an element of peer support to enable messages to people in the trial phone fitness," said Grace. She said that "teenagers really react to it."
"They use technology daily in their lives every day la fitness phone number, so a teenager said, why do not communicate over the phone?"
Finally, the desire is to be able to provide health phone fitness professionals who can prescribe.