MyNutritionPlanner: Development and Evaluation of an Innovative Software Approach

MyNutritionPlanner：创新软件方法的开发和评估

• 批准号: 8524581
• 负责人: Daniel K Davies
• 金额: $ 26.67万
• 依托单位: ABLELINK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8524581
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Algorithms; American; Blood; Body Weight decreased; Calories; Caregivers; Cessation of life; Cholesterol; Client; Cognitive; Companions; Computer software; Computers; Cues; Data; Decubitus ulcer; Degenerative polyarthritis; Dependency; Development; Devices; Diabetes Mellitus; Diet; Documentation; Down Syndrome; Education; Educational Curriculum; Elements; Equation; Equilibrium; Evaluation; Exercise; Expert Systems; Fatigue; Fatty acid glycerol esters; Food; Gallbladder; Glosso-Sterandryl; Goals; Health; Health Care Costs; Health Promotion; Health behavior; Heart Diseases; Hypertension; Individual; Instruction; Intellectual functioning disability; Intervention; Knowledge; Life; Liver; Mainstreaming; Mental Depression; Menu Planning; Multimedia; Nutritional; Outcome Measure; Phase; Physical activity; Population; Preparation; Process; Public Health; Recommended Daily Allowances; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Stroke; Students; System; Systems Development; Tablets; Technology; Testing; Time; Weight; Work; base; cancer type; computer generated; design; digital; digital video recording; effective intervention; health disparity; improved; innovation; interactive multimedia; literacy; meetings; nutrition; nutrition education; premature; programs; prototype; public health relevance; saturated fat; self esteem; skills; software development; software systems; sugar; touchscreen; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For most Americans, understanding and planning a healthy daily menu can be a confusing and multi- faceted process. The cognitive challenges faced by people with intellectual disabilities (ID) create even greater barriers in understanding the complexity of nutritional concepts such as the food groups, caloric values, saturated fats, cholesterol, daily recommended allowances, special diets, etc. Despite these barriers, various state and federal regulations require agencies to provide evidence of client participation in menu planning and other nutritional processes. This has resulted in a high level of dependency on staff for nutrition planning, and ultimately results in significant health disparities related to excess weight issues in students and adults with ID-and particularly those with Down syndrome. The proposed research will evaluate the utility of an intelligent system multimedia software approach for supporting self-directed menu planning, grocery list development, nutritional education, and meal preparation. The long term goals of the project are to use live audio, video, digital images, animated graphics, and nutrition-based algorithms to: 1) guide users with ID through the process of independently planning and preparing nutritionally healthy menus; 2) generate a more independently usable multimedia shopping list based upon those menus, and; 3) provide an interactive, game-like format for engaging in nutritional education. Specific objectives for Phase I include development and evaluation of a prototype Menu Planning Module. The prototype system will be tested for usability and efficacy in comparison to a highly rated mainstream menu planning software system that is noted for its ease of use. The Phase I hypothesis is that the prototype system will allow individuals with Down syndrome to complete menu planning tasks with significantly less assistance than when using the mainstream system, and will result in menus that are at least as nutritious as those generated when using the mainstream system. AbleLink Technologies will build upon several previously conducted research projects to guide prototype development. There are three primary project tasks: 1) development and documentation of system requirements; 2) to conduct software development of the Phase I system prototype, and; 3) to use that prototype in a usability study to determine the efficacy of the approach to improve independence and engagement in the menu planning process. Phase II plans include finalizing and implementing a comprehensive set of menu planning options and features to support different dietary needs; development of the system's nutritional algorithms that will track and compare nutritional values during menu planning to individual nutritional goals to provide an intelligent system approach toward promoting healthier menus; to design and develop the nutrition education module; to complete user login and data tracking/reporting/customization features; and to conduct a real-world field evaluation to determine the efficacy of the system over time in terms of weight loss/gain and other health related outcome measures.

描述（由申请人提供）：对大多数美国人来说，理解和规划一份健康的日常菜单可能是一个令人困惑和多方面的过程。智力障碍（ID）的人所面临的认知挑战在理解营养概念的复杂性，如食物组，热量值，饱和脂肪，胆固醇，每日推荐的津贴，特殊饮食等，尽管有这些障碍，各种州和联邦法规要求机构提供客户参与菜单规划和其他营养过程的证据。这导致了对营养计划工作人员的高度依赖，并最终导致与ID学生和成人（特别是唐氏综合症患者）超重问题相关的显著健康差异。拟议的研究将评估实用的智能系统多媒体软件的方法，支持自我导向的菜单规划，杂货店清单的发展，营养教育，膳食准备。该项目的长期目标是使用实时音频，视频，数字图像，动画图形和基于营养的算法来：1）引导ID用户通过独立计划和准备营养健康菜单的过程; 2）根据这些菜单生成更独立可用的多媒体购物清单; 3）提供一种互动的，类似游戏的格式，用于参与营养教育。 第一阶段的具体目标包括开发和评估一个原型菜单规划模块。该原型系统将进行测试的可用性和有效性相比，高度评价的主流菜单规划软件系统，指出其易用性。第一阶段的假设是，原型系统将允许唐氏综合征的个人完成菜单规划任务时，显着较少的援助比使用主流系统时，并会导致菜单，至少是营养的那些使用主流系统时产生的。AbleLink技术公司将建立在几个以前进行的研究项目，以指导原型开发。项目有三项主要任务：1）系统需求的开发和文档编制; 2）进行第一阶段系统原型的软件开发; 3）在可用性研究中使用该原型，以确定该方法在菜单规划过程中提高独立性和参与度的有效性。第二阶段的计划包括最后确定和实施一套全面的菜单规划选项和功能，以支持不同的饮食需求;开发系统的营养算法，将在菜单规划期间跟踪和比较营养价值与个人营养目标，以提供一种智能系统方法，促进更健康的菜单;设计和开发营养教育模块;完成用户登录和数据跟踪/报告/定制功能;并进行真实世界的现场评估，以确定系统在体重减轻/增加和其他健康相关结果测量方面随时间推移的功效。