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Promoting fruit and vegetable consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic – SportStudisMoveYou (SSMY): A randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: The stay-at-home circumstances due to the global coronavirus pandemic have had some negative impacts on people's eating behavior. PURPOSE: Therefore, this study attempted to improve fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption intention and behavior through an online video intervention base...

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Autores principales: Weber, Joram, Nigg, Claudio R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AIMS Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9807408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36636149
http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2022048
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description BACKGROUND: The stay-at-home circumstances due to the global coronavirus pandemic have had some negative impacts on people's eating behavior. PURPOSE: Therefore, this study attempted to improve fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption intention and behavior through an online video intervention based on the social cognitive theory. METHODS: Participants were recruited with a promotion video posted on social media channels. After consenting and completing a pre-survey, participants were randomly assigned to either a) the intervention group addressing FV consumption or the b) attention control group addressing physical activity. After two weeks, the participants completed an online post-survey. RESULTS: The participants (N = 82) were 77% female and 50% students; 95% chose German for the survey language, and 84% were from Switzerland. The mean baseline FV consumption intention was 3.05 (standard deviation: 1.03), and FV consumption was 4.64 (standard deviation: 2.06) portions a day. The analysis showed no significant change in FV consumption intention (F = (1, 78) = 0.02, p = 0.88, ηp(2) = 0.00) or behavior (F = (1, 78) = 0.019, p = 0.89, ηp(2) = 0.03) due to the intervention. CONCLUSIONS: Plausible reasons why no significant effect was found were the brief intervention duration, the setting and insufficient tailoring. The lessons learned from this study are to plan better, tailor more to the needs of participants and carefully consider the goals before promoting an intervention.
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spelling pubmed-98074082023-01-11 Promoting fruit and vegetable consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic – SportStudisMoveYou (SSMY): A randomized controlled trial Weber, Joram Nigg, Claudio R. AIMS Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The stay-at-home circumstances due to the global coronavirus pandemic have had some negative impacts on people's eating behavior. PURPOSE: Therefore, this study attempted to improve fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption intention and behavior through an online video intervention based on the social cognitive theory. METHODS: Participants were recruited with a promotion video posted on social media channels. After consenting and completing a pre-survey, participants were randomly assigned to either a) the intervention group addressing FV consumption or the b) attention control group addressing physical activity. After two weeks, the participants completed an online post-survey. RESULTS: The participants (N = 82) were 77% female and 50% students; 95% chose German for the survey language, and 84% were from Switzerland. The mean baseline FV consumption intention was 3.05 (standard deviation: 1.03), and FV consumption was 4.64 (standard deviation: 2.06) portions a day. The analysis showed no significant change in FV consumption intention (F = (1, 78) = 0.02, p = 0.88, ηp(2) = 0.00) or behavior (F = (1, 78) = 0.019, p = 0.89, ηp(2) = 0.03) due to the intervention. CONCLUSIONS: Plausible reasons why no significant effect was found were the brief intervention duration, the setting and insufficient tailoring. The lessons learned from this study are to plan better, tailor more to the needs of participants and carefully consider the goals before promoting an intervention. AIMS Press 2022-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9807408/ /pubmed/36636149 http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2022048 Text en © 2022 the Author(s), licensee AIMS Press https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) )
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title_full Promoting fruit and vegetable consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic – SportStudisMoveYou (SSMY): A randomized controlled trial
title_fullStr Promoting fruit and vegetable consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic – SportStudisMoveYou (SSMY): A randomized controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Promoting fruit and vegetable consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic – SportStudisMoveYou (SSMY): A randomized controlled trial
title_short Promoting fruit and vegetable consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic – SportStudisMoveYou (SSMY): A randomized controlled trial
title_sort promoting fruit and vegetable consumption during the covid-19 pandemic – sportstudismoveyou (ssmy): a randomized controlled trial
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9807408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36636149
http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2022048
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