Digital storytelling boosts knowledge and behavioral expectation to reduce dietary sodium: a randomized controlled trial

Digital storytelling boosts knowledge and behavioral expectation to reduce dietary sodium: a randomized controlled trial

Excessive sodium intake is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease and mortality. Reducing daily sodium consumption to below 2 g (~5 g of salt) effectively lowers cardiovascular mortality rates. The growing reach of social media and short-form video content offers new opportunities to disseminate health information through scalable, digital interventions such as short, animated storytelling (SAS) videos. We evaluated the effect of a sodium…