Article detail · 2025
Green Tick: Evaluating Digital Health, Diet and Sports Interventions: Systematic Review on the Complex Nature of Young People’s Interactions with Digital Technologies
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- 2025
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- review
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- YÖKSİS venue Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine
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Abstract
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Systematically, this study assessed the impact of digital technologies, including social media, on health, diet, and sports, amid rising concerns and acknowledged benefits. We performed a comprehensive review of literature spanning 20 years, up to June 2024, focusing on interventions targeted at youth aged 14-29. Our initial database search identified 8,278 articles. After removing duplicates and those that failed to meet inclusion criteria, 307 articles underwent a rigorous blinded peer review process, ultimately resulted in 29 studies for synthesis. Our analysis concludes the dual impact of digital technologies on youth: although they highlight the positive potential in colouring youth health behaviors, often linked to sports, nutrition, and active lifestyles, they also pose risks due to the unregulated and misleading content, emphasizing the necessity for enhanced digital literacy and critical engagement with content. In this context, five major theme highlight this paradoxical impact together: 1) Increasing awareness, knowledge and self-efficacy, 2) Hazards, misinformation, and credibility, 3) Attitudes and behavior change, 4) Social comparison, and 5) Product promotion. Eventually, we draw attention to the urgent need for regulations and systematic content verification to protect youth from misinformation and to strengthen the credibility, trustworthiness and effectiveness of health, diet and sport related content on these technologies.
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