Understanding Food Literacy Intervention Effectiveness: Postsecondary Students' Perspectives on How a mHealth Food Literacy Intervention Impacted Their Dietary Behaviors.
Holly N Schaafsma, Olivia T Caruso, Louise W McEachern, Jamie A Seabrook, Jason A Gilliland
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Abstract
Objective: To explore postsecondary students' perspectives of the impacts of a mobile health (mHealth) food literacy intervention on dietary behaviors and why the intervention was or was not effective at influencing their dietary behavior.
Design: Qualitative study using semistructured focus groups.
Setting: Ontario, Canada.
Participants: Ten focus groups were conducted with postsecondary students (n = 30) aged 17-25 years from 2 universities.
Phenomenon of interest: The impacts of a mHealth food literacy intervention on participants' dietary behaviors and why the intervention was or was not effective.
Analysis: Focus group data were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis.
Results: Themes regarding dietary impacts included increased dietary consciousness, decrease in perceived unhealthy foods, increase in perceived healthy foods, making healthier dietary choices, and the Hawthorne effect. Intervention effectiveness themes encompassed barriers and facilitators to engagement and participants' ability to implement the intervention into their dietary behaviors. Facilitators included intervention suitability and application functionality; barriers included technology concerns, lacking time, food accessibility, food affordability, and intervention suitability.
Conclusion and implications: This study provides insights into the impact, facilitators, and barriers of a mHealth food literacy intervention on postsecondary students' dietary behaviors. Consideration of these facilitators and barriers may improve the effectiveness of future interventions.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (JNEB), the official journal of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, is a refereed, scientific periodical that serves as a global resource for all professionals with an interest in nutrition education; nutrition and physical activity behavior theories and intervention outcomes; complementary and alternative medicine related to nutrition behaviors; food environment; food, nutrition, and physical activity communication strategies including technology; nutrition-related economics; food safety education; and scholarship of learning related to these areas.
The purpose of JNEB is to document and disseminate original research and emerging issues and practices relevant to these areas worldwide. The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior welcomes evidence-based manuscripts that provide new insights and useful findings related to nutrition education research, practice and policy. The content areas of JNEB reflect the diverse interests in nutrition and physical activity related to public health, nutritional sciences, education, behavioral economics, family and consumer sciences, and eHealth, including the interests of community-based nutrition-practitioners. As the Society''s official journal, JNEB also includes policy statements, issue perspectives, position papers, and member communications.