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Serious Games for Health and Medicine (812) Parent and Child Education on Healthy Eating and Nutrition (219) Innovations and Technology for Healthy Eating Education (498) Games and Gamification for Health (788)

Published on in Vol 9, No 3 (2021): Jul-Sep

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/23050, first published .
The Effect of a Serious Health Game on Children’s Eating Behavior: Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

The Effect of a Serious Health Game on Children’s Eating Behavior: Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

The Effect of a Serious Health Game on Children’s Eating Behavior: Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

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Frans Folkvord1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Gosse Haga3 Author Orcid Image ;   Alexandra Theben2 Author Orcid Image
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