TY - JOUR
T1 - mHealth Improved Fruit and Vegetable Accessibility and Intake in Young Children
AU - Bakırcı-Taylor, Ashlee Lane
AU - Reed, Debra B.
AU - McCool, Barent
AU - Dawson, John A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - Objective: To explore the potential of mHealth using smartphones to improve fruit and vegetable intake in children. Design: A 10-week randomized control and intervention pilot study. Setting: Story time sessions at local libraries. Participants: A convenience sample of 30 parents and children (aged 3–8 years). Intervention: Delivery of nutrition intervention through the mobile Jump2Health website, Facebook posts, and text messages. Main Outcome Measures: Electronic food photos of children's meals and snacks, 10-question survey related to fruit and vegetable consumption, reflectance spectroscopy via Veggie Meter to measure skin carotenoid levels, body mass index percentiles, and a mobile learning survey. Analysis: Descriptive statistics and Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test. Results: Veggie Meter values for children and parents showed significant week × treatment interactions in the intervention group compared with the control group for both children (P <.001 and parents (P <.001). Conclusions and Implications: This pilot study offers a potentially effective program including a mobile Web site, social media, and test message components to increase fruit and vegetable intake of young children.
AB - Objective: To explore the potential of mHealth using smartphones to improve fruit and vegetable intake in children. Design: A 10-week randomized control and intervention pilot study. Setting: Story time sessions at local libraries. Participants: A convenience sample of 30 parents and children (aged 3–8 years). Intervention: Delivery of nutrition intervention through the mobile Jump2Health website, Facebook posts, and text messages. Main Outcome Measures: Electronic food photos of children's meals and snacks, 10-question survey related to fruit and vegetable consumption, reflectance spectroscopy via Veggie Meter to measure skin carotenoid levels, body mass index percentiles, and a mobile learning survey. Analysis: Descriptive statistics and Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test. Results: Veggie Meter values for children and parents showed significant week × treatment interactions in the intervention group compared with the control group for both children (P <.001 and parents (P <.001). Conclusions and Implications: This pilot study offers a potentially effective program including a mobile Web site, social media, and test message components to increase fruit and vegetable intake of young children.
KW - child
KW - fruit
KW - mHealth
KW - parent
KW - vegetable
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jneb.2018.11.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jneb.2018.11.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 30638880
AN - SCOPUS:85059609555
SN - 1499-4046
VL - 51
SP - 556
EP - 566
JO - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
JF - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
IS - 5
ER -