The Kids Obesity Prevention Program: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Serious Game for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health games provide opportunities for the treatment and prevention of childhood obesity. We developed a motion-controlled serious game for children that addresses 3 core topics of nutrition, physical activity, and stress coping. It is the first serious game that extensively targets the dietary energy density principle (DED-P) in relation to nutrition. The game is intended to provide an additional educational component for the prevention and treatment of obesity in children.

Objective

The Kids Obesity Prevention study aimed to evaluate the newly developed game and to evaluate how well children are able to understand and apply the DED-P.

Methods

This cluster randomized controlled trial collected data from 82 primary school children aged 9 to 12 years and the

SUBMITTER: Mack I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7210499 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature