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      Digital health promotion in schools

      Research Group
      Resarch Environment DHEAR

      Quick Facts

      Full project name

      Duration

      January 2021 – December 2025

      A more sedentary life and a diet high in sugar have created public health problems in low-income countries - heart disease has become increasingly common in the population. To help prevent this development, researchers at the University of Skövde, Mid Sweden University and two Nepalese universities will examine existing knowledge among parents and school children in Nepal and develop a digital health education.

      In low- and middle-income countries, 80 percent of deaths are lifestyle-related, with heart disease as the leading cause of death. Nepal is a low-income country, undergoing major changes in the structure of society as a result of increased industrialization.

      A more sedentary life and a diet with a larger amount of sugar and fat are new risk factors. At the same time, the knowledge of the population regarding lifestyle-related diseases and heart disease is limited. This is worrying, as heart disease takes many years to develop and is founded at an early age. The fact that children are also at risk makes it extra important to increase the general awareness at an early stage of the factors that contribute to a healthy life.

      The research project is well in line with Nepal's national plan to increase collaboration with schools to prevent and control heart disease. Over the next three years, the research team will conduct a cross-sectional study to examine existing knowledge in parents and school going children.

      Thereafter, a first version of a digital instrument will be developed and pretested in schools. The instrument will be in the form of a game used on a mobile device. This effort will then be evaluated in terms of efficiency and economy. The idea is that the work will lead to a cheap and efficient way of working with digital health education.

      Project Leader

      Professor of Public Health/Dean

      Participating Researchers

      Abhinav Vaidya
      Professor at the Department of Community Medicine, Kathmandu Medical College, Nepal
      Koustuv Dalal
      Professor at the Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University
      Natalia Oli
      Associate Professor at Department of Community Medicine, Kathmandu Medical College, Nepal
      Madhusudan Subedi
      Professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal
      Published: 3/4/2021
      Edited: 3/4/2021
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