Health-Specific Information and Communication Technology Use and Its Relationship to Obesity in High-Poverty, Urban Communities: Analysis of a Population-Based Biosocial Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More than 35% of American adults are obese. For African American and Hispanic adults, as well as individuals residing in poorer or more racially segregated urban neighborhoods, the likelihood of obesity is even higher. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) may substitute for or complement community-based resources for weight management. However, little is currently known about health-specific ICT use among urban-dwelling people with obesity.

Objective

We describe health-specific ICT use and its relationship to measured obesity among adults in high-poverty urban communities.

Methods

Using data collected between November 2012 and July 2013 from a population-based probability sample of urban-dwelling African American and Hispanic adults residing on

SUBMITTER: Gopalan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4942684 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature