A Behaviorally Informed Mobile App to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Grocery Shopping (SwapSHOP): Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interventions targeting the nutritional quality of grocery shopping have the potential to help improve diet and health outcomes.

Objective

This study aims to assess the feasibility and acceptability of receiving advice on healthier food purchases through SwapSHOP, a behaviorally informed smartphone app that allows users to scan barcodes of grocery products from the United Kingdom, providing nutritional information and personalized swap suggestions to encourage healthier purchases.

Methods

We randomized adult volunteers in a 6-arm parallel-group controlled feasibility trial. Participants used the SwapSHOP app to record their grocery shopping during a 2-week run-in period and were individually randomized in a 3:1 ratio to either intervention or control arms w

SUBMITTER: Piernas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10811579 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature