| Project/Area Number |
26893283
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Community health nursing
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Women's Medical University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-08-29 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | 大学生 / 食生活 / 健康教育 / ソーシャルメディア / スマートフォン / 青年期 / 生活習慣病予防 / インターネット / 携帯電話 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research explores how social media can empower youths like college students acquire better attitude and behavior for healthy eating habits. Forty college students have kept their blog-style dietary diaries online and follow/interact with blog entries for five days to evaluate the effects of social media's peer-education/support on the youths' motivation to develop healthier eating habits. Through the process, the frequency of thinking about their eating increased while their self-evaluation about their eating habits went down, and both numbers returned to the levels of before the experiment. The comparisons of the free descriptions about their strong points/ problems of their eating habits before, right after and one month after the experiment showed that the participants came to describe their eating habits more concretely, critically and precisely. This methodology which embraces the peer-education/support holds promise for the future as health education for youths.
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