Digital Interventions Targeting Healthy and Sustainable Eating Behavior: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This review underscores the innovative potential of digital interventions in improving eating behavior, highlighting how effectiveness varies by intervention design. Social media emerge as particularly promising, likely due to their unique social and interactive features. By pinpointing the contexts and types of digital interventions that most effectively promote plant-based eating, this study provides timely guidance for researchers and practitioners in increasingly digitalized food environments. Nonetheless, more high-quality studies are needed to confirm these insights and address the critical gap among adolescents and low socioeconomic groups.
Authors
- Tim Smits (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6239-5421)
- Käbi Vanwinkelen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0812-1854)
Institutions
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Published
- 2025-12-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/80821
- Primary Topic
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission
- KU Leuven
- Research Executive Agency