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Record W4406972933 · doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2025.01.003

Understanding Food Literacy Intervention Effectiveness: Postsecondary Students’ Perspectives on How a mHealth Food Literacy Intervention Impacted Their Dietary Behaviors

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Schaafsma Holly, Olivia Caruso, Louise W. McEachern, Jamie A. Seabrook, Jason A. Gilliland

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Nutrition Education and Behavior · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealth Literacy and Information Accessibility
Canadian institutionsChildren’s Health Research InstituteChildren's Hospital of Western OntarioLondon Health Sciences CentreWestern University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchChildren's Health FoundationChildren's Health Research Institute
KeywordsIntervention (counseling)LiteracyPsychologyAdult literacymHealthEnvironmental healthMedical educationMedicinePedagogyPsychological intervention

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: To explore postsecondary students' perspectives of the impacts of a mobile health (mHealth) food literacy intervention on dietary behaviors and why the intervention was or was not effective at influencing their dietary behavior. DESIGN: Qualitative study using semistructured focus groups. SETTING: Ontario, Canada. PARTICIPANTS: Ten focus groups were conducted with postsecondary students (n = 30) aged 17-25 years from 2 universities. PHENOMENON OF INTEREST: The impacts of a mHealth food literacy intervention on participants' dietary behaviors and why the intervention was or was not effective. ANALYSIS: Focus group data were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. RESULTS: Themes regarding dietary impacts included increased dietary consciousness, decrease in perceived unhealthy foods, increase in perceived healthy foods, making healthier dietary choices, and the Hawthorne effect. Intervention effectiveness themes encompassed barriers and facilitators to engagement and participants' ability to implement the intervention into their dietary behaviors. Facilitators included intervention suitability and application functionality; barriers included technology concerns, lacking time, food accessibility, food affordability, and intervention suitability. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS: This study provides insights into the impact, facilitators, and barriers of a mHealth food literacy intervention on postsecondary students' dietary behaviors. Consideration of these facilitators and barriers may improve the effectiveness of future interventions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.063
Threshold uncertainty score0.125

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.080
GPT teacher head0.481
Teacher spread0.402 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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