- Title
- Associations between digital health intervention engagement and dietary intake: A systematic review
- Creator
- Delaney, Tessa; McLaughlin, Matthew; Wiggers, John; Sutherland, Rachel; Wolfenden, Luke; Hall, Alix; Yoong, Sze Lin; Brown, Alison; O’Brien, Kate; Dray, Julia; Barnes, Courtney; Hollis, Jenna; Wyse, Rebecca
- Relation
- NHMRC.APP1150661 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1150661 | APP1132450 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1132450 | APP1128348 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1128348 | ARC DE170100382 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE170100382
- Relation
- Nutrients Vol. 13, Issue 9, no. 3281
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13093281
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- There has been a proliferation of digital health interventions (DHIs) targeting dietary in-take. Despite their potential, the effectiveness of DHIs are thought to be dependent, in part, on user engagement. However, the relationship between engagement and the effectiveness of dietary DHIs is not well understood. The aim of this review is to describe the association between DHI engagement and dietary intake. A systematic search of four electronic databases and grey literature for records published before December 2019 was conducted. Studies were eligible if they examined a quantitative association between objective measures of engagement with a DHI (subjective experience or usage) and measures of dietary intake in adults (aged ≥ 18 years). From 10,653 citations, seven studies were included. Five studies included usage measures of engagement and two examined subjective experiences. Narrative synthesis, using vote counting, found mixed evidence of an association with usage measures (5 of 12 associations indicated a positive relationship, 7 were in-conclusive) and no evidence regarding an association with subjective experience (both studies were inconclusive). The findings provide early evidence supporting an association between measures of usage and dietary intake; however, this was inconsistent. Further research examining the association between DHI engagement and dietary intake is warranted.
- Subject
- engagement; adherence; digital health intervention; digital behavior change intervention; diet; nutrition
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1476148
- Identifier
- uon:49749
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-6643
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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