Trial reportThe international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2017
The impact of an innovative web-based school nutrition intervention to increase fruits and vegetables and milk and alternatives in adolescents: a clustered randomized trial.
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The Impact of an Innovative Web-based School Nutrition Intervention to Increase Fruits and Vegetables and Dairy Products in Adolescents
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Digital Interventions Targeting Healthy and Sustainable Eating Behavior: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Promoting healthy school food environments and nutrition in Canada: a systematic review of interventions, policies, and programs.Nutrition reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing obesity in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Comprehensive Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyles and Prevent Cardiometabolic Diseases in Low-Income School Children From Mexico: Protocol for the ESCOLARISANO Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Trial
- Dietitian-led school-based nutrition education and its effects on knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and anthropometric measurements: a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2026Trial
- Efficacy of a Short-Term Lifestyle Change Intervention in Healthy Young Men: The FASt Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- The impact of a family web-based nutrition intervention to increase fruit, vegetable, and dairy intakes: a single-blinded randomized family clustered intervention.Nutrition journal · 2022Trial
- Evaluation of the Computer-Based Intervention ProgramInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- Multilevel, Actionable Factors Related to Adolescent Dairy Intake: A Scoping Review Guided by the Social Ecological Model.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Review
- Dietary Social Norms in School and Home Settings and Their Influence on Children's Healthy Eating: Short-Term Longitudinal Analysis.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Learning About Healthy Nutrition by Doing: Experiential Approaches in School-Based Nutrition Education.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Food Game: A Gamified Interventional Study to Promote Healthy Eating, Lifestyle Behaviours, and Sustainability in Italian High School.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Impact of Intervention Strategies on Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.Food and nutrition bulletin · 2025Article
- Promoting Dairy Consumption Among Families: Development and User Experience Study of a Web-Based Nutrition Intervention.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- The Effect of Multi-Strategy Nutrition Education Programs on Hedonic Hunger and Nutrition Status in Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effect of a Web-Based Nutritional and Physical Activity Intervention With Email Support (the EDDY Program) on Primary School Children's BMI Z-Score During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Intervention Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2024Article
- Digital behavioral dietary interventions to promote a healthy diet among children and adolescents: a scoping review of technologies, design, behavioral theory, and assessed outcomes.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Impact of a Web-Based Nutrition Intervention on Eating Behaviors and Body Size Preoccupations among Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Body Image and Lifestyle Behaviors in High School Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe increase in overweight and obesity in adolescents and its health-related consequences highlight the need to develop strategies, which could help them adopt healthy eating habits. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of an innovative web-based school nutrition intervention (Team Nutriathlon) aimed at promoting the consumption of vegetables and fruit (V/F) and milk and alternatives (M/A) in high school students and to identify facilitators and/or barriers influencing its success.
methodsTen classes of first and second year secondary students (grades 7 and 8) from the Québec City region were randomized into two groups (control n = 89 and intervention n = 193). Participants in the intervention (Team Nutriathlon) were to increase their consumption of V/F and M/A using an innovative web-based platform, developed for this study, over 6 weeks. The control group followed the regular school curriculum. The number of servings of V/F and M/A consumed by students per day was compared between the two groups before, during, immediately after and 10 weeks after the intervention using a web-based platform. Main outcome measures included V/F and M/A servings and facilitators and/or barriers of program success. Repeated measures linear fixed effects models were used to assess the impact of Team Nutriathlon on V/F and M/A consumption. A P-value of <0.05 was considered significant.
resultsStudents in the intervention reported a significant increase of 3 servings and 1.8 servings per day of V/F and M/A, respectively, compared to the control group (P < 0.05); however, this was only observed in the short-term. Some factors contributing to the success of Team Nutriathlon included the team aspect of the program, use of the technology and recording results outside of classroom hours.
conclusionTeam Nutriathlon represents an innovative web-based nutrition program which positively impacts V/F and M/A consumption among high school students. Using web-based or technological platforms may help youth adopt healthy eating habits that will have implications later in adulthood; however, further studies are needed to determine their long-term effects.
trial registrationNCT03117374 (retrospectively registered).
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