Commercially Available Apps to Support Healthy Family Meals: User Testing of App Utility, Acceptability, and Engagement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents juggling caregiving and paid employment encounter a range of barriers in providing healthy food to their families. Mobile apps have the potential to help parents in planning, purchasing, and preparing healthy family food. The utility and acceptability of apps for supporting parents are unknown. User perspectives of existing technology, such as commercially available apps, can guide the development of evidence-based apps in the future.

Objective

This study aims to determine the feasibility of existing commercially available apps for supporting the healthy food provision practices of working parents.

Methods

Working parents (N=133) were recruited via the web and completed a 10-item Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behavior (COM-B) self-evaluat

SUBMITTER: Mauch CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8140382 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature