- Title
- Image-based dietary assessment and tailored feedback using mobile technology: mediating behavior change in young adults
- Creator
- Shoneye, Charlene L.; Dhaliwal, Satvinder S.; Wright, Janine L.; Pratt, Iain S.; Jancey, Jonine; Halse, Rhiannon E.; Scott, Jane A.; Mullan, Barbara; Collins, Clare E.; Kerr, Deborah A.; Pollard, Christina M.; Boushey, Carol J.; Delp, Edward J.; Harray, Amelia J.; Howat, Peter A.; Hutchesson, Melinda J.; Rollo, Megan E.; Zhu, Fengqing
- Relation
- Nutrients Vol. 11, Issue 2, no. 435
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11020435
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Assessing the implementation of nutrition interventions is important to identify characteristics and dietary patterns of individuals who benefit most. The aim was to report on young adults’ experiences of receiving dietary feedback text messaging intervention. Diet was captured using an image-based 4-day mobile food recordTM application (mFRTM) and assessed to formulate two tailored feedback text messages on fruit and vegetables and energy-dense nutrient-poor (EDNP) foods and beverages. At 6-months 143 participants completed a second mFRTM and a questionnaire evaluating the dietary feedback. Participants who agreed the text messages made them think about how much vegetables they ate were more likely to increase their intake by at least half a serve than those who disagreed [odds ratio (OR) = 4.28, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.76 to 10.39]. Those who agreed the text messages made them think about how much EDNP foods they ate, were twice as likely to decrease their intake by over half a serve (OR = 2.39, 95%CI: 1.12 to 5.25) than those who disagreed. Undertaking detailed dietary assessment ensured the tailored feedback was constructive and relevant. Personal contemplation about vegetable and EDNP food intake appears to be a mediator of dietary change in young adults.
- Subject
- tailored feedback; image-based dietary assessment; mobile food record; technology intervention; text messaging; young adult; tailoring; vegetables; junk food; sugar-sweetened beverages; alcohol
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407222
- Identifier
- uon:35707
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-6643
- Rights
- © 2019 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/).
- Language
- eng
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