The development and usability of a web-based mobile application as a dairy intake screener for South African adults

Autor: Monique C. Piderit, Zelda White, Friedeburg A. M. Wenhold
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Dairy Research. 89:453-460
ISSN: 1469-7629
0022-0299
DOI: 10.1017/s0022029922000802
Popis: Paper-based dietary assessment tools such as food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) and especially dietary screeners are making way for versions that use technology. Amidst low intakes of dairy and dairy-related nutrients in South Africa, and to increase public awareness thereof, we aimed to develop and evaluate the usability of an application (app) to screen for dairy intake in higher income South African adults. In a consultative process, a dairy intake screener (‘Dairy Diary’) was developed as an eight-item quantitative FFQ with four types of commonly consumed local dairy products: milk, maas (fermented milk), yoghurt, and cheese. For each dairy product, usual frequency of consumption and portion size per eating occasion were scored resulting in three risk classes
Databáze: OpenAIRE