Meal-Specific Dietary Changes From Squires Quest! II: A Serious Video Game Intervention

作者：Cullen Karen W; Liu Yan; Thompson Debbe I

来源：Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2016, 48(5): 326-+.

DOI：10.1016/j.jneb.2016.02.004

• video game
• fruit
• vegetables
• children
• implementation intentions

Objective: Squire's Quest! II: Saving the Kingdom of Fivealot, an online video game, promotes fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption. An evaluation study varied the type of implementation intentions used during the goal-setting process (none, action, coping, or both action and coping plans). Participants who created action plans reported higher FV consumption 6 months after baseline. This study assessed changes by specific meal in that study.
Methods: A total of 400 fourth-and fifth-grade children completed 3 24-hour recalls at baseline and 6 months later. These were averaged to obtain FV intake. Analyses used repeated-measures ANCOVA.
Results: There was a significant group by time effect for vegetables at 6 months (P = .01); Action (P =.01) and coping (P =.04) group participants reported higher vegetable intake at dinner. There were significant increases in fruit intake at breakfast (P =.009), lunch (P =.01), and snack (P <.001).
Conclusions and Implications: Setting meal-specific goals and action or coping plans may enable children to overcome barriers and consume FV.

• 出版日期2016-5