Development of a mobile application to assess Brazilian schoolchildren's diet: CADE – food consumption at home and at school
The development of technologies for children's dietary assessment shows important potential for reducing the occurrence of inherent errors in traditional methods. The present study aimed to describe the development of a mobile app for the dietary assessment of Brazilian schoolchildren. The mobi...
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| description | The development of technologies for children's dietary assessment shows important potential for reducing the occurrence of inherent errors in traditional methods. The present study aimed to describe the development of a mobile app for the dietary assessment of Brazilian schoolchildren. The mobile app assesses schoolchildren's diet with self-report by their parents or guardians in the home environment, through multiple-pass 24-hour recall coupled with a food propensity questionnaire; and by an adult in the school environment, through a food record. The tool presents a database of food items usually consumed by Brazilian schoolchildren, including modes of preparation, probing foods and types of food quantification such as digital photos of household measurements and food portions. The CADE app (food consumption at home and at school) contains 2125 food items, 9 options for preparation methods and 18 options for probing items. There are 75 options for household measurements, also including 26 digital photos of four types of household measurements and 440 photos of portion sizes of 90 foods from the Brazilian Manual of Child Food Portion Quantification. Some innovative features include an interface to take photos of the child's meals and report seconds and leftover food consumption, besides the possibility of receiving notifications on the mobile device to remember to report the diet. The CADE app can assist the standardisation and automation of dietary data collection from schoolchildren, support food and nutrition data in childhood and promote research in nutritional epidemiology while reducing data collection costs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a022376418c74b67ac30aced74c36cf22023-03-09T12:38:46ZengCambridge University PressJournal of Nutritional Science2048-67902022-01-011110.1017/jns.2022.25Development of a mobile application to assess Brazilian schoolchildren's diet: CADE – food consumption at home and at schoolJade Veloso Freitas0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2196-6563Sandra Patricia Crispim1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2257-9899Marina Campos Araujo2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7980-6618Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de JaneiroDepartment of Nutrition, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, BrazilSergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BrazilThe development of technologies for children's dietary assessment shows important potential for reducing the occurrence of inherent errors in traditional methods. The present study aimed to describe the development of a mobile app for the dietary assessment of Brazilian schoolchildren. The mobile app assesses schoolchildren's diet with self-report by their parents or guardians in the home environment, through multiple-pass 24-hour recall coupled with a food propensity questionnaire; and by an adult in the school environment, through a food record. The tool presents a database of food items usually consumed by Brazilian schoolchildren, including modes of preparation, probing foods and types of food quantification such as digital photos of household measurements and food portions. The CADE app (food consumption at home and at school) contains 2125 food items, 9 options for preparation methods and 18 options for probing items. There are 75 options for household measurements, also including 26 digital photos of four types of household measurements and 440 photos of portion sizes of 90 foods from the Brazilian Manual of Child Food Portion Quantification. Some innovative features include an interface to take photos of the child's meals and report seconds and leftover food consumption, besides the possibility of receiving notifications on the mobile device to remember to report the diet. The CADE app can assist the standardisation and automation of dietary data collection from schoolchildren, support food and nutrition data in childhood and promote research in nutritional epidemiology while reducing data collection costs.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2048679022000258/type/journal_articleFood consumptionMobile applicationSchoolchildrenTechnology |
| spellingShingle | Jade Veloso Freitas Sandra Patricia Crispim Marina Campos Araujo Development of a mobile application to assess Brazilian schoolchildren's diet: CADE – food consumption at home and at school Journal of Nutritional Science Food consumption Mobile application Schoolchildren Technology |
| title | Development of a mobile application to assess Brazilian schoolchildren's diet: CADE – food consumption at home and at school |
| title_full | Development of a mobile application to assess Brazilian schoolchildren's diet: CADE – food consumption at home and at school |
| title_fullStr | Development of a mobile application to assess Brazilian schoolchildren's diet: CADE – food consumption at home and at school |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a mobile application to assess Brazilian schoolchildren's diet: CADE – food consumption at home and at school |
| title_short | Development of a mobile application to assess Brazilian schoolchildren's diet: CADE – food consumption at home and at school |
| title_sort | development of a mobile application to assess brazilian schoolchildren s diet cade food consumption at home and at school |
| topic | Food consumption Mobile application Schoolchildren Technology |
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