Mobile Apps to Support Healthy Family Food Provision: Systematic Assessment of Popular, Commercially Available Apps.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Modern families are facing conflicting demands on their time and resources, which may be at the detriment of child and family diet quality. Innovative nutrition interventions providing parents with behavioral support for the provision of healthy food could alleviate this issue. Mobile apps have the potential to deliver such interventions by providing practical behavioral support remotely, interactively, and in context.

Objective

This review aimed to identify and assess popular, commercially available food- and nutrition-related mobile apps that offer support for the provision of healthy family food by (1) describing app scope and characteristics, (2) assessing app quality, and (3) conducting a behavioral analysis of app content and features.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Mauch CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6320405 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature