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Summary

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Interactive nutrition comics show promise for improving children's diets. This technology-based tool improved fruit, vegetable, and water intake in minority preadolescents, with results maintained at follow-up.

Keywords:

BMI childhood obesity dietary behaviors digital health preadolescents racial and ethnic minority populations

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Pediatric Nutrition
Health Behavior Change
Digital Health Interventions

Background:

Childhood obesity disproportionately affects low-income racial and ethnic minority populations.
Dietary factors like high-energy food intake and low fruit/vegetable consumption contribute to obesity.
Technology-based tools offer potential for promoting healthier eating habits.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of Intervention INC, an interactive web-based nutrition comic tool.
To explore the preliminary effectiveness of Intervention INC on diet-related psychosocial variables and behaviors.

Main Methods:

Pilot randomized study with 89 Black and Hispanic preadolescents (mean age 10.4 years) in New York City.
Intervention group received web-based interactive nutrition comics; comparison group received nutrition newsletters.
Feasibility, usability, acceptability, and satisfaction were primary measures; diet-related attitudes and behaviors were secondary.

Main Results:

High engagement with the web-based tools (72% and 60% weekly access).
Both tools were found acceptable with high usability scores.
Medium to large effect sizes favoring the comic intervention for fruit, vegetable, and water intake behaviors were maintained at 3-month follow-up.

Conclusions:

Interactive comic tools are a feasible and appealing format for promoting healthy dietary behaviors in minority preadolescents.
Further research, including large-scale trials, is needed to confirm the effectiveness of Intervention INC.