Does Healthy Cooking Lead to Healthy Choices? Exploring the Impact of a Virtual Reality Cooking Game on Healthy Eating Decisions.

IF 2.8 3区 医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Yilin Yang, Mengying Liu, Minqi Lyu, Jianping Huang
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Objective: Cooking plays a crucial role in healthy eating, and food exposure during cooking significantly influences people's health and well-being. Given the challenges faced by novice cooks and the general lack of interest in cooking, this research proposes utilizing a highly engaging cooking game as an alternative to real-life cooking, allowing individuals to achieve the same health-boosting benefits as traditional cooking while enjoying the game. Additionally, this study will examine the moderating role of food type and cooking manner in this process. Methods: Two preregistered behavioral experiments (Nstudy1 = 60, Nstudy2 = 54) were conducted to examine how using different types of food (healthy vs. unhealthy) in a cooking game affects subsequent food choices, and how the cooking manner (neat vs. messy) moderates this effect. Results: Study 1 found that cooking healthy food led to healthier food choices after gaming. Study 2 revealed a significant moderating effect of cooking manner: When cooking healthy food, a neat cooking manner led individuals to subsequently choose fewer healthy foods, while a messy cooking manner led to an increase; conversely, when cooking unhealthy food, participants who cooked neatly chose more healthy food, while those who cooked messily chose less healthy food. Conclusions: These findings suggest that an engaging cooking game could replace real-life cooking as a direct and effective strategy to promote healthy eating. The results also highlight the importance of context-specific strategies in designing and implementing health interventions to prevent unintended consequences arising from excessive cues.

健康的烹饪会带来健康的选择吗?探索虚拟现实烹饪游戏对健康饮食决策的影响。
目的:烹饪在健康饮食中起着至关重要的作用,烹饪过程中的食物暴露会显著影响人们的健康和福祉。鉴于新手厨师面临的挑战和普遍缺乏对烹饪的兴趣,这项研究建议利用一个高度吸引人的烹饪游戏来替代现实生活中的烹饪,让个人在享受游戏的同时获得与传统烹饪相同的健康益处。此外,本研究将探讨食物种类和烹饪方式在此过程中的调节作用。方法:进行了两个预注册的行为实验(Nstudy1 = 60, Nstudy2 = 54),以检验在烹饪游戏中使用不同类型的食物(健康与不健康)如何影响随后的食物选择,以及烹饪方式(整洁与凌乱)如何调节这种影响。结果:研究1发现,烹饪健康食物会导致玩家在玩游戏后选择更健康的食物。研究2揭示了烹饪方式的显著调节作用:当烹饪健康食品时,整洁的烹饪方式导致个体随后选择更少的健康食品,而凌乱的烹饪方式导致个体随后选择更多的健康食品;相反,当烹饪不健康的食物时,烹饪整齐的参与者选择了更健康的食物,而那些烹饪凌乱的参与者选择了不健康的食物。结论:这些发现表明,引人入胜的烹饪游戏可以取代现实生活中的烹饪,成为促进健康饮食的直接有效策略。研究结果还强调了在设计和实施卫生干预措施以防止过量提示引起的意外后果方面根据具体情况制定战略的重要性。
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CiteScore
6.70
自引率
11.40%
发文量
56
期刊介绍: Games for Health Journal is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the impact of game research, technologies, and applications on human health and well-being. This ground-breaking publication delivers original research that directly impacts this emerging, widely-recognized, and increasingly adopted area of healthcare. Games are rapidly becoming an important tool for improving health behaviors ranging from healthy lifestyle habits and behavior modification, to self-management of illness and chronic conditions to motivating and supporting physical activity. Games are also increasingly used to train healthcare professionals in methods for diagnosis, medical procedures, patient monitoring, as well as for responding to epidemics and natural disasters. Games for Health Journal is a must for anyone interested in the research and design of health games that integrate well-tested, evidence-based behavioral health strategies to help improve health behaviors and to support the delivery of care. Games for Health Journal coverage includes: -Nutrition, weight management, obesity -Disease prevention, self-management, and adherence -Cognitive, mental, emotional, and behavioral health -Games in home-to-clinic telehealth systems
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