Publications by authors named "Valerie Bouzo"

Article Synopsis
  • Keenoa™ is a Canadian diet app designed for dietitians to gather diet-related data from clients, evaluated by user feedback against traditional pen and paper methods.
  • A study with 102 participants found strengths in the app such as its picture recognition and pleasant user experience, but also revealed challenges like barcode scanning issues and a limited food database.
  • Participants expressed a preference for mobile apps over traditional food diaries and suggested improvements like a larger food database and combining dietary tracking with physical activity monitoring.
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Background: Accurate dietary assessment is needed in studies that include analysis of nutritional intake. Image-based dietary assessment apps have gained in popularity for assessing diet, which may ease researcher and participant burden compared to traditional pen-to-paper methods. However, few studies report the validity of these apps for use in research.

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