Impact of Pediatric Mobile Game Play on Healthy Eating Behavior: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Video and mobile games have been shown to have a positive impact on behavior change in children. However, the potential impact of game play patterns on outcomes of interest are yet to be understood, especially for games with implicit learning components.

Objective

This study investigates the immediate impact of fooya!, a pediatric dietary mobile game with implicit learning components, on food choices. It also quantifies children's heterogeneous game play patterns using game telemetry and determines the effects of these patterns on players' food choices.

Methods

We analyzed data from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 104 children, aged 10 to 11 years, randomly assigned to the treatment group (played fooya!, a dietary mobile game developed by one

SUBMITTER: Kato-Lin YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7710449 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature