Development of an obesity management ontology based on the nursing process for the mobile-device domain.
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2013-07-01
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BACKGROUND Lifestyle modification is the most important factor in the management of obesity It is therefore essential to enhance client participation in voluntary and continuous weight control OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop an obesity management ontology for application in the mobile device domain We considered the concepts of client participation in behavioral modification for obesity management and focused on minimizing the amount of information exchange between the application and the database when providing tailored interventions METHODS An obesity management ontology was developed in seven phases 1 defining the scope of obesity management 2 selecting a foundational ontology 3 extracting the concepts 4 assigning relationships between these concepts 5 evaluating representative layers of ontology content 6 representing the ontology formally with Prot g and 7 developing a prototype application for obesity management RESULTS Behavioral interventions dietary advice and physical activity were proposed as obesity management strategies The nursing process was selected as a foundation of ontology representing the obesity management process We extracted 127 concepts which included assessment data eg sex body mass index and waist circumference inferred data to represent nursing diagnoses and evaluations eg degree of and reason for obesity and success or failure of lifestyle modifications and implementation eg education and advice The relationship linking concepts were part of instance of derives of derives into has plan followed by and has intention The concepts and relationships were formally represented using Prot g The evaluation score of the obesity management ontology was 4 5 out of 5 An Android based obesity management application comprising both agent and client parts was developed CONCLUSIONS We have developed an ontology for representing obesity management with the nursing process as a foundation of ontology