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Utility of eButton images for identifying food preparation behaviors and meal-related tasks in adolescents

Overview of attention for article published in Nutrition Journal, February 2018
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Title
Utility of eButton images for identifying food preparation behaviors and meal-related tasks in adolescents
Published in
Nutrition Journal, February 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12937-018-0341-2
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Margaret Raber, Monika Patterson, Wenyan Jia, Mingui Sun, Tom Baranowski

Abstract

Food preparation skills may encourage healthy eating. Traditional assessment of child food preparation employs self- or parent proxy-reporting methods, which are prone to error. The eButton is a wearable all-day camera that has promise as an objective, passive method for measuring child food preparation practices. This paper explores the feasibility of the eButton to reliably capture home food preparation behaviors and practices in a sample of pre- and early adolescents (ages 9 to 13). This is a secondary analysis of two eButton pilot projects evaluating the dietary intake of pre- and early adolescents in or around Houston, Texas. Food preparation behaviors were coded into seven major categories including: browsing, altering food/adding seasoning, food media, meal related tasks, prep work, cooking and observing. Inter-coder reliability was measured using Cohen's kappa and percent agreement. Analysis was completed on data for 31 participants. The most common activity was browsing in the pantry or fridge. Few participants demonstrated any food preparation work beyond unwrapping of food packages and combining two or more ingredients; actual cutting or measuring of foods were rare. Although previous research suggests children who "help" prepare meals may obtain some dietary benefit, accurate assessment tools of food preparation behavior are lacking. The eButton offers a feasible approach to food preparation behavior measurement among pre- and early adolescents. Follow up research exploring the validity of this method in a larger sample, and comparisons between cooking behavior and dietary intake are needed.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 19%
Researcher 8 11%
Student > Master 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Other 5 7%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 25 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 13 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 10%
Psychology 4 6%
Engineering 3 4%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Other 15 21%
Unknown 27 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 April 2018.
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