Self-Monitoring Dietary Intake: Current and Future Practices

Health Care Provider Perceptions of Consumer-Grade Devices and Apps for Tracking Health: A Pilot Study (Preprint)

“…The five factors from the factor analysis of perceptions questions included: (1) data review (=.78) -defined as providers perceiving this data to be useful in patient encounters and wanting it to be available through the electronic medical record system (EMR); (2) provider trust of the data (=.79) -including questions on the trustworthiness of the data from these technologies; (3) patients' interest in technologies (=.69) -defined as the providers' perceptions regarding how interested in these technologies they believe their patients to be; (4) security and liability (=..9) -defined as the providers' perceptions of the data from these technologies; and (5) perceived patient barriers (=.85) -including the providers' perceptions of the age of the patient, their technology literacy, and the access their patients had to these technologies. Overall, the mean scores for perceptions for all factors were found to be significantly different from the neutral value (neither agree or disagree).…”

“…Patient self-tracking, or recording of health indicators at home has been used in a variety of situations, including the prediction of events such as migraines, weight control, physical activity patterns, and self-management of blood pressure and blood sugar [4][5][6][7][8]. The popularity of self-tracking has also grown with almost 70 percent of U.S. adults tracking a health indicator such as weight, diet, exercise, or health symptoms for themselves or for another individual [9].…”

The Association Between Engagement and Weight Loss Through Personal Coaching and Cell Phone Interventions in Young Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

“…Both the Cell Phone and Personal Coaching interventions were rooted in theoretical models, and the behavioral framework was based on previous intervention programs that led to significant weight loss in six months. [10,11] Since self-monitoring has been shown repeatedly to be an important feature of behavioral weight-loss programs [12,13], we emphasized this behavioral strategy in both intervention groups. Participants in the Cell Phone group were prompted by the smartphone app daily to self-weigh, while the Personal Coaching participants were encouraged by their coach to self-weigh during monthly calls.…”

Design, feasibility, and acceptability of an intervention using personal digital assistant-based self-monitoring in managing type 2 diabetes

“…Prior to training, BalanceLog® was programmed for the individual calorie and nutrient requirements for each participant, based on the guidelines of the ADA, and estimated energy needs based on resting calorie expenditure and usual activity level. [4,5,27] Using a standardized training approach developed with a preliminary study [28,29] participants were taught how to search the database, enter foods they ate, and examine (meal-by-meal and day-by-day) the extent to which they achieved their dietary goals for total calories; calories from saturated fats and unsaturated fats, carbohydrates, and proteins; sodium, sugar; and fiber. Participants were able to examine the extent to which they met dietary goals, which were presented as percent of goal achieved per meal and per day for several nutrients.…”

“…In our examination of the literature, only a handful of articles discussed the use of PDAs by patients to assist with self-management of a chronic disease. [13] Moreover, only one study was found in which PDA-based interventions were used in patients with diabetes. In this pilot study, Tsang et al showed a significant reduction in hemoglobin A1c when diabetic patients used an electronic diabetes monitoring system via a handheld electronic diary to track meal portions and blood glucose readings over a 6-month period as compared with the usual paper-based tracking method.…”