Creating action plans in a serious video game increases and maintains child fruit-vegetable intake: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child fruit and vegetable intake is below recommended levels, increasing risk for chronic disease. Interventions to influence fruit and vegetable intake among youth have had mixed effects. Innovative, theory-driven interventions are needed. Goal setting, enhanced by implementation intentions (i.e., plans tightly connected to a behavioral goal), may offer a solution. Action plans state "how" a goal will be achieved, while coping plans identify a potential barrier and corresponding solution. The research reported here evaluated the short- and long-term effects of goal setting enhanced with implementation intentions on child fruit and vegetable intake in a 10-episode, theoretically-grounded serious videogame promoting fruit and vegetables. This is one of the first studies t

SUBMITTER: Thompson D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4372224 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature