Season 4

CONTENT AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Whether you follow, like or reject social media, it cannot be ignored. Social media’s effect on peoples’ food choices is controversial, and may undermine healthy eating behaviours. Improving our understanding in this area is important as it can help us to better guide people in their use of social media food content.

In this Journal Club session, we’ll discuss a web-based conversation study exploring the influence social media can have on young adults’ dietary behaviours.

This session covers:

• How social media influences dietary behaviours
• Social media use and its application in eating behaviour change research and practice
• Regulation of social media food advertisements
• How to critically analyse a published qualitative research article

Expert speaker

Dr Brian Power PhD
Lecturer at Atlantic Technological University and Honorary Senior Dietitian at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

@brianpowerRD

Dr Brian Power is a Lecturer at the Atlantic Technological University and Honorary Senior Dietitian at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In his current academic and clinical roles, Brian contributes to research-based advances with a particular focus on understanding and supporting eating behaviour change.

Paper reference

Friedman V, Wright C, Molenaar A, McCaffrey T, Brennan L, Lim M. The Use of Social Media as a Persuasive Platform to Facilitate Nutrition and Health Behavior Change in Young Adults: Web-Based Conversation Study. J Med Internet Res 2022;24(5):e28063

https://www.jmir.org/2022/5/e28063

About Journal Club Chair, Dr Caroline Childs

@caroline.e.childs

Each Journal Club session is chaired by Dr Caroline Childs, Nutrition and Metabolism subject lead in Medicine at the University of Southampton. She received student-nominated awards for ‘most engaging lecturer’ and ‘best pastoral support’ and a colleague-nominated award for teaching excellence. Dr Childs is a Nutrition Society Ambassador and a South East Regional Representative for the Association for Nutrition.

As she says, “Developing skills in critical appraisal is an essential part of being a competent nutrition professional – whether you’re a dietitian, nutritionist or health professional specialising in nutrition.”

CPD CERTIFICATE & LEARNING MATERIALS

Once you have viewed a full recorded session the mynutriweb team will review and arrange to send you your certificate via email from hello@mynutriweb.com within two weeks of viewing the session.