Optimizing Child Nutrition Education With the Foodbot Factory Mobile Health App: Formative Evaluation and Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early nutrition interventions to improve food knowledge and skills are critical in enhancing the diet quality of children and reducing the lifelong risk of chronic disease. Despite the rise of mobile health (mHealth) apps and their known effectiveness for improving health behaviors, few evidence-based apps exist to help engage children in learning about nutrition and healthy eating.

Objective

This study aimed to describe the iterative development and user testing of Foodbot Factory, a novel nutrition education gamified app for children to use at home or in the classroom and to present data from user testing experiments conducted to evaluate the app.

Methods

An interdisciplinary team of experts in nutrition, education (pedagogy), and game design led to the c

SUBMITTER: Brown JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7195667 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature