Short-Term Changes in Nutrition Literacy, Dietary Engagement, and Reported Food Habits Among Adolescents After One Session with a Gamified Digital Nutrition-Education Platform: A Single-Arm Pre-Post Study

Background/Objectives: No study has evaluated a gamified nutrition-education platform for adolescents in Eastern Europe. This pilot study described short-term changes in nutrition literacy, dietary engagement and reported food habits after one session with AHOPE, an automated gamified platform, among Romanian adolescents.

Methods

In a single-arm pre-post study, 332 adolescents aged 10-19 years began one session and 155 (46.7%) completed it, answering three scales, including an adapted forced-choice Adolescent Food Habits Checklist, immediately before and after. Paired tests used Benjamini-Hochberg correction; moderation and predictor analyses were exploratory.