THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DIGITAL WEIGHT LOSS APPLICATIONS TO PROMOTE HEALTHY LIVING
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The aim of this research was to use the effectiveness of using digital weight loss applications to promote healthy living. The tool used in the research was Line the use of health promotion media by popular social media integration such as Line and health care and weight control program. The samples were Naresuan University students who were overweight with the excess of standard BMI 30 people. In addition, it took 12 weeks to do the experiment. research tools : The questionnaire developed by the researcher with reliability of.92 was used to collect data. The data were then analyzed in terms of mean, standard deviation, one – way Anova, and LSD testing method. The assigned statistical significant level in this research was .05 It was an indication of health care of Naresuan University students for weight control by the overall exercise behavior for research and practice. Due to the follow-up, the result found that all 30 people of the samples were found to be successful in health care and weight loss. Furthermore, weight control program was the Aerobic exercise and Cardio program showed 4.5% in weight loss. Consequently, the satisfaction evaluation result showed that the samples of health promotion and weight loss group had the mean at the high level ( = 4.87, SD = 0.21).
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