Publications by authors named "Christabel A Domfe"
Article Synopsis
- Shared plate eating (SPE) is a prevalent practice in many Low- and Middle-Income Countries, like Ghana, but has been understudied, leading to challenges in accurately assessing dietary habits in these contexts.
- The study aimed to explore the frequency of SPE versus individual plate eating among family members in both rural and urban households using a wearable camera to capture food consumption directly.
- Results showed a significant difference, with rural households engaging in SPE 96.7% of the time compared to 36.7% in urban households, highlighting the importance of modern methods like wearable cameras for better data on dietary practices.
Introduction: Dietary assessment is important for understanding nutritional status. Traditional methods of monitoring food intake through self-report such as diet diaries, 24-hour dietary recall, and food frequency questionnaires may be subject to errors and can be time-consuming for the user.
Methods: This paper presents a semi-automatic dietary assessment tool we developed - a desktop application called Image to Nutrients (I2N) - to process sensor-detected eating events and images captured during these eating events by a wearable sensor.