Evaluation of a Community-based Health Promotion Program with Online Off-line Combination: The Effect of an Online Diet Record System on Self-rated Achievement

The aim of this study is to clarify the effect of e-health community health promotion program, which consists of both online diet record system and off-line health activities. 49 participants are surveyed concerning self-rated sense of understanding and sense of control about calorie intake, nutrition balance, and physical activity along with basic information, internet usage and lifestyle habit are surveyed during 2009-2011. Self-rated sense of achievement regarding dietary understanding and dietary sense of control significantly increased in a group that utilized the online diet record system. Further analysis shows that the usage of the diet record system affects the self-rated sense of achievement while neither age, sex, answers of the preliminary questionnaire nor session participation had any effect.