Video Game Play, Child Diet, and Physical Activity Behavior Change: A Randomized Clinical Trial

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Video Game Play, Child Diet, and Physical Activity Behavior Change: A Randomized Clinical Trial




Video game play, child diet, and physical activity behavior change, was an article that conducted an experiment on a new form of play through video games. The article saw that there was a drop in fruit and vegetable intake, as well as a decrease in activity. Along with that decrease there was an increase in obesity and diabetes. The article sought to find a means of influencing kids to eat healthier and play more via video games. The experiment was conducted with middle school students from Texas and North Carolina.  The sample had more 10-year-olds, men/boys, whites, and parents with a college degree or higher. There were no differences in demographics or anthropometrics between participants with or without missing data. Only 7.5% of all the data were missing across all four time periods. Little's chi-square test of all variables indicated that data were missing completely at random. Analyses were performed with and without imputed data and the results were similar. Two-group RCT; assessments occurred at baseline, immediately after Diab, immediately after Nano, and 2 months later. Data were collected in 2008–2009, and analyses were conducted in 2009–2010. The idea was that they would use nonviolent, story driven games to influence the kids into healthier eating and induce physical activity. The treatment group played Diab and Nano in sequence. Control Group played diet and physical activity knowledge-based games on popular websites. The experiment found that, Children playing these video games increased fruit and vegetable consumption by about 0.67 servings per day but not water and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, or body composition.


Baranowski, Tom, Baranowski, Janice, Thompson, Debbe, Buday, Richard, Jago, Russ, Griffith, Melissa Juliano, Islam, Noemi, Nguyen, Nga, & Watson, Kathleen B. (2011). Video game play, child diet, and physical activity behavior change a randomized clinical trial. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(1), 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2010.09.029

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 5, 2021 at 9:02 PM

    i find it interesting that video games can cause behavioral change and people are actually influencing people to play games, because most of the time parents or anyone does not agree.

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  2. Rachel JulienJanuary 11, 2021 at 5:16 PM

    Similar to Tiffany, I think it's interesting that video games would have such an impact on diet and physical activity. And how when they implemented healthy choices in the games, they followed suit.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 27, 2021 at 10:20 AM

    This article adresses similar facts as the article I researched. It is crazy to see how videp games and technology has taken over.

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