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A Dietary Assessment App for Hospitalized Patients at Nutritional Risk: Development and Evaluation of the MyFood App.

Mari Mohn PaulsenMartina Lovise Lindhart HagenMarte Hesvik FrøyenRikke Julie Foss-PedersenDagfinn BergsagerRandi Julie TangvikLene Frost Andersen
Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2018)
We developed the MyFood app as a tool to monitor dietary intake among hospitalized patients at nutritional risk. The recorded intake of energy, protein, and liquid using MyFood showed good agreement with the photograph method for the majority of participants. The app's ability to estimate intake within food groups was good, except for bread and cereals which were overestimated and fruits which were underestimated. The app was well accepted among study participants and has the potential to be a dietary assessment tool for use among patients in clinical practice.
Keyphrases
  • clinical practice
  • weight gain
  • human health
  • physical activity
  • ionic liquid
  • binding protein
  • amino acid