Tom Baranowski|Courtney Ryan|Andrés Hoyos-Cespedes|Amy Shirong Lu
Nutrition Education and Dietary Behavior Change Games: A Scoping Review
Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine|Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine|Northeastern University|Northeastern University
games provide attractive venue engaging participants increasing nutritionrelated knowledge dietary behavior change review appeared devoted literature scoping review nutrition education dietary behavior change videogames interactive games conducted systematic search made pubmed agricola google scholar information abstracted 22 publications included publication include videogame interactive experience involving games videogame alone minigames inserted larger multimedia experience game part humandelivered intervention games design objective influence dietary behavior psychosocial determinant dietary behavior nutrition knowledge hereinafter referred dietrelated must reported english must appeared professional publication including report outcomes results thereby passing peer review review restricted dietrelated information selected games diversity targeted dietary knowledge intake behaviors targeted populationsaudiences game mechanics behavioral theories research designs findings revealed diversity quality research general poor precluding metaanalysis systematic review one studies reported positive outcome playing games one reported webbased education program resulted change gamebased intervention studies games may missed number dietarynutrition games known evaluation known data presented games research limited inconsistent conclusions implications firmer research base needed establish efficacy effectiveness nutrition education dietary behavior change games