Interventions of Eating Habits and Healthy Behaviors

About thirty to fifty percent of college students report having negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, sadness, anger, hopelessness, shame, fear, and more. And over seventy percent feel exhausted or overwhelmed by schoolwork. According to scholarly research, these emotions pose obstacles during college life impacting the eating habits and healthy behaviors of college students. These habits can have a possibility of bringing lifelong issues in social, educational, and self-esteem aspects. Technology has revolutionized the world in a spectacular way in a short period of time. As students today have access to all sorts of technology like phones and computers, the abundance of knowledge readily available to them can change the course of their thinking about health. My research intends to understand more about current obstacles college students face and how to improve students' health by using technology interventions. By using an app called GroupMe, students will join a group chat to receive advice on how to enhance their eating habits and healthy behaviors. In the group chat, they will be asked questions to gather more data about the obstacles and issues they face when trying to commit to these health changes. Using technology to intervene and help college students have a healthier life during college can benefit them by addressing gaps in their current knowledge and stimulating interests in their own health. This study aims to provide the confidence in college students to take charge of their health through the use of technological resources available to them and help improve these resources.