Table 4.
Summary of intervention effects on healthy food purchasing and food consumption outcomes.
| Study | Healthy Food Purchasing | Healthy Food Consumption | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Intake | Carbohydrate | Protein | Fat | Micronutrients | Grains | Vegetables | Fruits | Fibre | Added Sugar | Salt | Unhealthy Snack | Healthy Eating Index | Healthy Eating Behaviour | ||
| Allen (2013) [10] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Alnasser (2019) [39] | + (b) | 0 | 0 | + (b), | + (b), | + (w) | + (w) | ||||||||
| Atienza (2008) [30] | + (b) | + (b) | + (b) | ||||||||||||
| Banerjee (2020) [38] | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Brindal (2019) [35] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Dodd (2017) [34] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Eyles (2017) [15] | + (b) (salt content); 0 (saturated fat, energy content and expenditure) | ||||||||||||||
| Gill (2019) [37] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | + (b) | ||||||||||
| Glanz (2006) [11] | + (b) | + (b) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Huberty (2019) [33] | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Inauen (2017) [16] | + (b) (at day 10); 0 (at 2 months) | + (b) (at day 10); 0 (at 2 months) | + (b) (at day 10); 0 (at 2 months) | + (b) (at day 10); 0 (at 2 months) | |||||||||||
| Jarvela (2018) [17] | + (b) | ||||||||||||||
| Lee (2019) [19] | + (w) | + (w) | + (w) | ||||||||||||
| McCarroll (2015) [31] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Palacios (2018) [32] | + (w) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | + (b) | |||||
| Park (2016) [14] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | + (b) | 0 | |||||||||
| Recio-Rodriguez (2018) [36] | + (w) | + (b), + (w) | 0 | + (b), + (w) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Rodgers (2015), (participants with BMI ≥25) [13] | + (b) | + (b) | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Rodgers (2015) (participants with BMI <21) [13] | 0 | − (b) | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Sarcona (2017) [18] | + (b) | ||||||||||||||
| Turner (2013) [12] | + (b) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
+ (b): between-group significant improvements in favour of app intervention group, − (b): between-group significant improvements in favour of non-app control group, + (w): within-group significant improvement in favour of app intervention group, 0: no significant change.