Computer-tailored dietary behaviour change interventions: a systematic review
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Improving dietary behaviours such as increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and reducing saturated fat intake are important in the promotion of better health. Computer tailoring has shown promise as a strategy to promote such behaviours. A narrative systematic review was conducted to describe the available evidence on 'second'-generation computer-tailored primary prevention interventions for dietary behaviour change and to determine their effectiveness and key characteristics of success. Systematic literature searches were conducted through five databases: Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and All EBM Reviews and by examining the reference lists of relevant articles to identify studies published in English from January 1996 to 2008. Randomized controlled trials or quasi-experimental designs with pre-test and post-test behavioural outcome data were included. A total of 13 articles were reviewed, describing the evaluation of 12 interventions, seven of which found significant positive effects of the computer-tailored interventions for dietary behaviour outcomes, one also for weight reduction outcomes. Although the evidence of short-term efficacy for computer-tailored dietary behaviour change interventions is fairly strong, the uncertainty lies in whether the reported effects are generalizable and sustained long term. Further research is required to address these limitations of the evidence.
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These theories and models have been used with considerable success to tailor health behavior interventions based on pre-intervention factors, but typically have not been used to adapt the intervention to the individual over the course of the intervention.
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- Authors
- Neville, L. M., O'Hara, B., & Milat, A. J.
- Affiliations
- New South Wales Department of Health (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Neville, L. M.
- ORCID
- Milat, A. J.
- Venue
- Health Education Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2009-03-13
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 699-720
- ISSN
- 0268-1153 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-3648
- PMC
- PMC2706490
- OpenAlex
- W2127225900
- Cited by
- 166
- References
- 35
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- FWCI
- 2.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Health Education Research (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Media Influence and Health
- Keywords
- computer-tailored intervention, dietary behavior change, fruit and vegetable intake, saturated fat intake, primary prevention, weight loss, intervention effectiveness
- MeSH terms
- Computer-Assisted Instruction, Diet, Humans, Health Behavior
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