Development of mobile application for body mass index (BMI) with health tips generation for the students of Cavite State University Main Campus / by Brylle R. Arbas and Javem Supnet.

Thesis (BS Nursing) Cavite State University

Includes bibliographical references.

College of Nursing (CON)

ARBAS, BRYLLE R.; SUPNET, JAVERN M., Development of mobile application for Body Mass Index(BMI) with health tips generation for the students of Cavite State University Main Campus, Undergraduate thesis, College of Nursing, Cavite State University, Indang, Cavite, March 2015, Adviser, Prof. Nenita B. Panaligan, RN, MAN

This study was conducted to develop a mobile application for Body Mass Index (BMI) with health tip generation for the students of Cavite State University Main Campus. Specifically, the study aimed to: determine the demographic profile of the participants in terms of age, sex, weight, height, BMI and body built; develop health tips that are appropriate to the identified health status in terms of underweight, normal weight and obese; critically study the information gathered using Ishikawa diagram; design the software with the use of Unified Modeling Language (UML) tool; develop a mobile application using Java as the development language and Eclipse as the software development tool; determine the level of efficiency and utilization of the students in the mobile application; evaluate the level of utilization on the developed mobile application by the students; and evaluate the developed system by undergoing different system testing as compared by the level of utilization of the student. The data were gathered though surveys and interviews conducted and analyzed using fishbone diagram. Related studies and literature were gathered that served as the reference and additional data for the development of study. The thirty student-participants signed a consent form permitting the data gathering and utilization of developed mobile application. Incremental/ quasi type random sampling was adopted by the researchers in developing the system. Several tools were also used in the study: Java and PHP as the development language used, extensible markup language (XML) for the layout of the application, Eclipse as the integrated development environment (IDE) used for coding and for the emulator, MySQL as the database of the system, and Adobe Photoshop for the images used. Furthermore, the system was evaluated by College of Nursing (CON) students and Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT) students at Cavite State University (CVSU) Main Campus. Data were analyzed using mean, frequency counts, percentage distribution, standard deviation, probability value, and Pearson correlation coefficient. Majority of the participants are 19 years old, females, with a weight of 60 kilograms, height of 167 centimeters or 5'6", with a normal Body Mass Index and mesomorph body built. The participants followed the tips that are in the mobile application for the whole 2 weeks. According to the result of the evaluation majority of the participants accepted the system, and it was evaluated that the developed health tips that are appropriate to the participants identified health status were moderately effective tool in terms of normal weight, underweight, and overweight. More than half (67.7%) of the participants in the pretest obtained a normal weight; while after following the tips on the developed mobile application, 70 percent of the participants obtained normal weight. It was concluded that efficiency of the developed mobile application does affect the level of utilization of both underweight and overweight students. The pre-test result reveals that more than half of the participants' weights were within normal classification before and after using the developed mobile application. The difficulties encountered were answered by the functions of the system. It provides useful tools for monitoring health status, generating tips and some basic information about BMI. It also serves as a new thematic area of study that follows the trends of advanced technology that can be accessed through android phones. The user's progress module of application can monitor students' health status based on stored, retrieved data on health tips and graph the users computed BMI. Another issue like how a student can lessen the possibilities of acquiring disease in relation to his or her BMI was assured by the BMI module for it can produce healthy tips for the possible disease prevention and to lessen the possibility to acquire such disease. It was also concluded that the development of android mobile applications is new field on the fast growing trend in technology. The students may be aware of what is the meaning of BMI, its classification, how to compute BMI, and its relation to health. This study recommends that for more effective result in determining BMI, to provide height converter to facilitate an easier way of converting his height from any unit into centimeter. The university infirmary section may monitor the students' current BMI status so to further contribute to their health and improvement of the mobile application regarding in health tips generation. A more expansive study of the same matter such as body fat percentage in order to provide the also students the percentage of fat that their body contains and calorie consumption and to conduct similar research with bigger population and long utilization of the developed mobile application among the participants prior to evaluation of the study in different schools and institutions

Submitted to the University Library 08/04/2020 T-6049