A mobile phone food record app to digitally capture dietary intake for adolescents in a free-living environment: Usability study

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Casperson, Shanon L ^a   Sieling, Jared ^b   Moon, Jon ^b   Johnson, LuAnn ^a   Roemmich, James N ^a   Whigham, Leah ^c  

^a GRAND FORKS HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MEI Research Ltd   (United States)

^c Paso Del Norte Institute for Healthy Living   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Dietary assessment; Dietary food records; Food record app; Smartphone app

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074156519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3324     Document Type: Article

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