Adjustment Factors Can Improve Estimates of Food Group Intake Assessed Using a Short Dietary Assessment Instrument

Hendrie, Gilly A.; Rebuli, Megan A.; Golley, Rebecca K.; Noakes, Manny

doi:10.1016/j.jand.2018.02.018

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“…Parental work hours were converted from continuous variables into groups (ie, part time=1 to <35 hours per week and full time=35+ hours) and combined to describe the family work schedule. Discretionary items were summed as total serves per day using age-and sex-specific adjustment factors [ 31 ]. Demographic data, diet quality, and COM-B self-evaluation items were presented descriptively (eg, n [%], mean [SD], and median [IQR] for COM-B items due to a positive skew in the data).…”

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Commercially Available Apps to Support Healthy Family Meals: User Testing of App Utility, Acceptability, and Engagement

Mauch¹,

Laws²,

Prichard³

et al. 2021

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

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Background Parents juggling caregiving and paid employment encounter a range of barriers in providing healthy food to their families. Mobile apps have the potential to help parents in planning, purchasing, and preparing healthy family food. The utility and acceptability of apps for supporting parents are unknown. User perspectives of existing technology, such as commercially available apps, can guide the development of evidence-based apps in the future. Objective This study aims to determine the feasibility of existing commercially available apps for supporting the healthy food provision practices of working parents. Methods Working parents (N=133) were recruited via the web and completed a 10-item Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behavior (COM-B) self-evaluation survey assessing their needs in relation to the provision of healthy family meals. A total of 5 apps were selected for testing, including a meal planning app, recipe app, recipe manager app, family organizer app, and barcode scanning app. Survey items were mapped to app features, with a subsample of parents (67/133, 50.4%) allocated 2 apps each to trial simultaneously over 4 weeks. A semistructured interview exploring app utility and acceptability and a web-based survey, including the System Usability Scale and the user version of the Mobile App Rating Scale, followed app testing. The interview data were analyzed using a theoretical thematic approach. Results Survey participants (N=133; mean age 34 years, SD 4 years) were mainly mothers (130/133, 97.7%) and partnered (122/133, 91.7%). Participants identified a need for healthy recipes (109/133, 82% agreed or strongly agreed) and time for food provision processes (107/133, 80.5%). Engagement quality was the lowest rated domain of the user version of the Mobile App Rating Scale across all 5 apps (mean score per app ranging from 3.0 to 3.7 out of a maximum of 5). The family organizer, requiring a high level of user input, was rated the lowest for usability (median 48, IQR 34-73). In the interviews, participants weighed the benefits of the apps (ie, time saving) against the effort involved in using them in determining their acceptability. Organization was a subtheme emerging from interviews, associated with the use of meal planners and shopping lists. Meal planners and shopping lists were used in time, while behavior was occurring. Conclusions Meal planning apps and features promoting organization present feasible, time-saving solutions to support healthy food provision practices. Attention must be paid to enhancing app automation and integration, as well as recipe and nutrition content, to ensure that apps do not add to the time burden of food provision and are supportive of healthy food provision behavior in time.

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Commercially Available Apps to Support Healthy Family Meals: User Testing of App Utility, Acceptability, and Engagement

Mauch¹,

Laws²,

Prichard³

et al. 2021

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

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“…Daily serves of each discretionary food and beverage category was calculated and adjusted in order to address self-report bias ( 18 ). Total daily intake of discretionary food and beverages was then calculated by summing daily adjusted serves of all 11 categories.…”

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Australians’ willingness to change their discretionary food intake: findings from the CSIRO junk food analyser

Mauch,

Brindal,

Hendrie

2024

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionOverconsumption of energy dense, nutrient poor foods and beverages is a major problem globally. This study describes what and how Australian adults consume and are willing to change their intake in terms of discretionary food and beverage categories.MethodsCross-sectional data were collected via the CSIRO Junk Food Analyser. This online tool contains short questions on discretionary food and beverage consumption, and items relating to stage of and willingness and strategies to reduce discretionary food and beverage intake. Analyses focussed on describing discretionary intake, adherence to guidelines and the prediction of willingness to change discretionary food intake amongst those exceeding guidelines.ResultsIn 2021, 41,109 Australian adults completed the CSIRO Junk Food Analyser. Participants were mostly female (73.1%) and aged 31–70 years (78.9%). Most participants exceeded dietary guidelines for discretionary food and beverage intake (67.4%, 27,694/41,109) with 40% reporting actively trying to reduce intake. Most people exceeding guidelines did so in categories of alcohol (39.3%) and cakes and biscuits (21.0%). Yet, willingness to change intake was lowest for alcohol (median, IQR of 3, 2:4 out of 5). Almost half of the participants were willing to try ‘having a few days off per week’ (46.0%), while only 13.4% were willing to try to ‘eliminate’ their highest ranked category.DiscussionAustralian adults are willing to reduce their discretionary food and beverage intake, but simply targeting the foods and beverages consumed most may not be the best place to start. Messages encouraging days off frequently consumed discretionary foods and beverages may be well received.

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Variety Predicts Discretionary Food and Beverage Intake of Australian Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of an Online Food Intake Survey

Mauch¹,

Golley²,

Hendrie³

2024

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Adjustment Factors Can Improve Estimates of Food Group Intake Assessed Using a Short Dietary Assessment Instrument

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Commercially Available Apps to Support Healthy Family Meals: User Testing of App Utility, Acceptability, and Engagement

Commercially Available Apps to Support Healthy Family Meals: User Testing of App Utility, Acceptability, and Engagement

Australians’ willingness to change their discretionary food intake: findings from the CSIRO junk food analyser

Variety Predicts Discretionary Food and Beverage Intake of Australian Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of an Online Food Intake Survey

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