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Development and Evaluation of e-CA, an Electronic Mobile-Based Food Record
Measures that capture diet as validly and reliably as possible are cornerstones of nutritional research, and mobile-based devices offer new opportunities to improve and simplify data collection. The balance between precision and acceptability of these data collection tools remains debated, and rigor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5295120/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28106767 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu9010076 |
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author | Bucher Della Torre, Sophie Carrard, Isabelle Farina, Eddy Danuser, Brigitta Kruseman, Maaike |
author_facet | Bucher Della Torre, Sophie Carrard, Isabelle Farina, Eddy Danuser, Brigitta Kruseman, Maaike |
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description | Measures that capture diet as validly and reliably as possible are cornerstones of nutritional research, and mobile-based devices offer new opportunities to improve and simplify data collection. The balance between precision and acceptability of these data collection tools remains debated, and rigorous validations are warranted. Our objective was to develop and evaluate an electronic mobile-based food record for a research setting. We developed e-CA, which includes almost 900 foods and beverages classified in 14 categories and 60 subcategories. e-CA was evaluated using three different methods: (1) usability and acceptability through a logbook and qualitative interviews; (2) dietary intake accuracy through comparison with 2 unannounced 24-h phone recalls on overlapping days; and (3) reliability and process comparison with a paper-based food record in a laboratory setting with a randomized design. e-CA proved to be intuitive and practical and was perceived as modern, trendy, and fun. Comparisons of e-CA with 24-h telephone recalls or paper-based food records in a laboratory setting with two small convenient samples showed good agreement but highlighted the well-known difficulty of estimating portion sizes and a necessary learning time to use the app. e-CA is a functional tool that has the potential to facilitate food intake measurement for research by increasing the pleasure of using the food record tool and reducing the perceived burden for the participants. It also decreases the workload, costs and the risk of transcription errors for researchers. |
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spelling | pubmed-52951202017-02-10 Development and Evaluation of e-CA, an Electronic Mobile-Based Food Record Bucher Della Torre, Sophie Carrard, Isabelle Farina, Eddy Danuser, Brigitta Kruseman, Maaike Nutrients Article Measures that capture diet as validly and reliably as possible are cornerstones of nutritional research, and mobile-based devices offer new opportunities to improve and simplify data collection. The balance between precision and acceptability of these data collection tools remains debated, and rigorous validations are warranted. Our objective was to develop and evaluate an electronic mobile-based food record for a research setting. We developed e-CA, which includes almost 900 foods and beverages classified in 14 categories and 60 subcategories. e-CA was evaluated using three different methods: (1) usability and acceptability through a logbook and qualitative interviews; (2) dietary intake accuracy through comparison with 2 unannounced 24-h phone recalls on overlapping days; and (3) reliability and process comparison with a paper-based food record in a laboratory setting with a randomized design. e-CA proved to be intuitive and practical and was perceived as modern, trendy, and fun. Comparisons of e-CA with 24-h telephone recalls or paper-based food records in a laboratory setting with two small convenient samples showed good agreement but highlighted the well-known difficulty of estimating portion sizes and a necessary learning time to use the app. e-CA is a functional tool that has the potential to facilitate food intake measurement for research by increasing the pleasure of using the food record tool and reducing the perceived burden for the participants. It also decreases the workload, costs and the risk of transcription errors for researchers. MDPI 2017-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5295120/ /pubmed/28106767 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu9010076 Text en © 2017 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bucher Della Torre, Sophie Carrard, Isabelle Farina, Eddy Danuser, Brigitta Kruseman, Maaike Development and Evaluation of e-CA, an Electronic Mobile-Based Food Record |
title | Development and Evaluation of e-CA, an Electronic Mobile-Based Food Record |
title_full | Development and Evaluation of e-CA, an Electronic Mobile-Based Food Record |
title_fullStr | Development and Evaluation of e-CA, an Electronic Mobile-Based Food Record |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and Evaluation of e-CA, an Electronic Mobile-Based Food Record |
title_short | Development and Evaluation of e-CA, an Electronic Mobile-Based Food Record |
title_sort | development and evaluation of e-ca, an electronic mobile-based food record |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5295120/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28106767 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu9010076 |
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