An Assessment of Behavior Change Techniques in Two Versions of a Dietary Mobile Application: The Change4Life Food Scanner.

ABSTRACT: The Change4Life Food Scanner app is a UK Government dietary app designed to provide feedback on the nutritional content of packaged foods to parents and their children. To understand its intended mechanism of behavior change and how Behavior Change Technique (BCT) content evolves with app updates, this research aimed to map out the BCTs of two versions of the Change4Life Food Scanner app. Two coders undertook a descriptive comparative analysis of the use of BCTs in the Food Scanner app using the Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy [both the outdated (v1.6) and updated (v2.0) versions of the app were coded]. Results showed that both versions encompass the BCTs "goal setting (behavior)", "feedback on behavior", "social support (unspecified)", "instruction on how to perform behavior", "salienc

SUBMITTER: Mahdi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8904754 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature