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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2017 Aug 16;61(6):669–677. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.05.024

Table 1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Criteria Justification

Inclusion
  • Interventions with and without a control group

  • Participants fall within the specified age range of 10-19

  • Digital interventions including smartphone applications, websites, text messaging, social media, email and PDA use

  • Studies that measure a diet or PA outcome at two or more time points, and where one measurement is a baseline measure

  • Any setting

  • Any population of adolescents

  • While lack of a control increases bias, excluding these papers would result in a less comprehensive review

  • This review is focused on adolescents

  • This review aims to determine the effectiveness of digital interventions specifically

  • This review is looking at interventions that effect a change, so baseline and follow-up measures are required

  • In order to be as comprehensive as possible, inclusion is not limited by setting or population group


Exclusion
  • Observational studies

  • Studies that do not report change in any dietary or PA outcomes

  • Interventions that do not include a digital component

  • Papers published in a language other than English

  • Interventions that aimed to treat disordered eating

  • This is a review of interventions

  • Change in diet and PA are the primary outcome measures

  • This review aims to determine the effectiveness of digital interventions

  • Translation resources are not available

  • Promotion of healthy diet and adequate levels of physical activity requires different strategies to what would be appropriate for the treatment of an eating disorder