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.

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Journal of Medical Internet Research
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2025-12-02
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https://doi.org/10.2196/80821
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Eating Disorders and Behaviors
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Digital Interventions Targeting Healthy and Sustainable Eating Behavior: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Tim Smits, Käbi Vanwinkelen
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Eating Disorders and Behaviors
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Digital Interventions Targeting Healthy and Sustainable Eating Behavior: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Tim Smits, Käbi Vanwinkelen
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Abstract

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.

Journal of Medical Internet ResearchVol. 28
KU Leuven (BE)
European Commission, KU Leuven, Research Executive Agency
Openalex Percentile: Top 50%
Eating Disorders and Behaviors
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