Nutritional interventions for adolescents using information and communication technologies (ICTs): A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: A cost-effective and interactive way of promoting healthy nutrition behaviors among adolescents is using information and communication technologies (ICTs). We systematically reviewed studies to identify technologies and their main characteristics used for nutritional interventions for adolescents, as well as to evaluate their quality and effectiveness. Our full protocol is available on the PROSPERO website (#CRD42016035882). A search was conducted across five databases for articles describing nutritional interventions that used ICTs designed mainly for healthy adolescents. Randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental and observational studies, and full and original papers, all of them published from 2005 to 2015, were included. Study quality was assessed by the Effective Public Health

SUBMITTER: do Amaral E Melo GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5621667 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature