Validation of an electronic food intake tool and its usability and efficacy in the healthcare setting

Autor: Vicki E. Barrington, Kainaat Syed, May Mak, Sara Smilevska, Kirsty Maunder, Eleanor J Beck, Kathryn Marshall
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic AssociationREFERENCES. 35(3)
ISSN: 1365-277X
Popis: BACKGROUND Accurate dietary intake data are critical to nutrition care planning. Commonly used food record charts (FRC) are paper-based, time consuming, require nutrient analysis estimations, and may provide limited accuracy. The present study aimed to validate Mobile Intake® (MI) (an electronic food intake tool incorporating the five-point visual scale and providing automatic nutrient analysis) for usability and efficacy in quantifying dietary intake in the healthcare setting. METHODS Two research stages within two tertiary hospitals included: (1) examining criterion validity and efficiency of dietary intake quantification using FRC and MI compared to the gold standard weighed food record (WFR) in a controlled environment and (2) comparing efficiency and effectiveness of FRC and MI in usual care conditions. RESULTS In Stage 1, dietary intake was calculated (n = 90) with a significant difference across all methods (FRC, MI and WFR) for energy (p = 0.04), but not between MI and WFR (p = 1.00). The time taken for MI (40 s) was significantly less than FRC (174 s) and WFR (371 s) (p
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