Development of a mobile application to assess Brazilian schoolchildren's diet: CADE - food consumption at home and at school.

ABSTRACT: 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 a

SUBMITTER: Freitas JV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9003633 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature