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SynthesisNutrients2022

The Effectiveness of Web-Based Interventions to Promote Health Behaviour Change in Adolescents: A Systematic Review.

Daniela de Sousa, Adriana Fogel, José Azevedo, Patrícia Padrão

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Synthesis in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed, 8 pooled it
11.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Advancing adolescent health promotion in the digital era.Health promotion international · 2025
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  18. Technology-Based Interventions to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverages among Adolescents: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daniela de SousaEPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, 4050-600 Porto, Portugal.
Adriana FogelEPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, 4050-600 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-0913-7498
José AzevedoEPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, 4050-600 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-6738-1827
Patrícia PadrãoEPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, 4050-600 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-6310-4956
Universidade do Porto · PT

Funding

FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. UIDB/04750/2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although web-based interventions are attractive to researchers and users, the evidence about their effectiveness in the promotion of health behaviour change is still limited. Our aim was to review the effectiveness of web-based interventions used in health behavioural change in adolescents regarding physical activity, eating habits, tobacco and alcohol use, sexual behaviour, and quality of sleep. Studies published from 2016 till the search was run (May-to-June 2021) were included if they were experimental or quasi-experimental studies, pre-post-test studies, clinical trials, or randomized controlled trials evaluating the effectiveness of web-based intervention in promoting behaviour change in adolescents regarding those health behaviours. The risk of bias assessment was performed by using the Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP)-Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies. Fourteen studies were included. Most were in a school setting, non-probabilistic and relatively small samples. All had a short length of follow-up and were theory driven. Thirteen showed significant positive findings to support web-based interventions' effectiveness in promoting health behaviour change among adolescents but were classified as low evidence quality. Although this review shows that web-based interventions may contribute to health behaviour change among adolescents, these findings rely on low-quality evidence, so it is urgent to test these interventions in larger controlled trials with long-term maintenance.

Indexed as

Internet-Based InterventionAdolescentExerciseHealth BehaviorHealth PromotionHumansSleepadolescentsbehaviour changehealth behavioursystematic reviewweb-based intervention

Identifiers

PMID35334915
PMCPMC8954163
OpenAlexW4220697945

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