Pedagogical tools in Face-it
The Face-it project is a health-promoting intervention targeting persons with recent gestational diabetes and their families. The intervention in the Face-it project comprises two health pedagogic tools: The Family Wheel and the Liva App.
Behind the Family Wheel in Face-it
Here you can read more about the development and use of the Family Wheel.
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The family wheel has previously been used for vulnerable pregnant women and has been further developed and adapted to the needs of the target group through co-creative processes involving both project health nurses and families in the Face-it project.
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The Family Wheel is an interactive dialogue tool that health visitors in the Face-it project use together with the families to discuss gestational diabetes and healthy habits in the family. The overall purpose with the Family Wheel is to support motivation and actions in relation to healthy habits based on the family’s resources and need for support.
The Family Wheel consists of five themes:
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Gestational diabetes
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Daily routines
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Food and meals
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Physical activity
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Family, friends, and network
Hear about the development and the use of the Face-it Family Wheel
Behind the Liva App in Face-it
Here you can read more about the development and use of the Liva App.
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Liva App is a mobile application helping the users to maintain or improve their well-being and health behavior. The app offers the users the opportunity for setting personal goals based on their needs and resources, receive personal health coaching, watch their own improvement, and receive feedback. The direct communication with the health coaches gives the users personal guidance, which might increase the motivation to and possibility of reaching their goals.
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In a close collaboration between Liva Healthcare A/S and the researchers behind the Face-it project, the original Liva App was customized to meet the specific needs of new parents. In the Face-it project, all Liva coaches have a healthcare background as well as previous experience in guiding families and/or individuals in behavior change, and they are employed and trained by the Face-it project.
User involvement in Face-it
User involvement in the Face-it research project has taken place across all four phases of the project. Below, you can find an overview of the phases and their respective content.
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The preparation for the project, including the involvement of users, began in 2017. By 2019, the intervention was ready to be implemented. The data collection was finalised in 2023, and the impact of the intervention has been evaluated using a randomized controlled design.
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The project is anchored at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen and conducted in close collaboration with Aarhus University and several other partners. The data collection has taken place in Copenhagen, Odense, and Aarhus.
We have chosen to describe the involvement of users based on four phases of the research project, as illustrated in the figure above.
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