A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON VALIDATION OF HEALTH BUDDY APP BY MANUAL NUTRIENT CALCULATION METHOD

Kumari P; Sharma M

Volume : VI, Issue : V, May - 2017

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON VALIDATION OF HEALTH BUDDY APP BY MANUAL NUTRIENT CALCULATION METHOD

Kumari P, Sharma M

Abstract :

Health buddy app was made in June, 2016. It was made by the group of five students of Delhi University. Health buddy app is an application which is used to track nutritional intake of an individual. It does not require any traditional method (i.e. manual calculation). This app gives results very frequently and works in a very efficient manner. The present study was conducted in January 2017 enrolled total 30 subjects from Manav Rachna International University, Faridabad, Haryana. Random sampling was done to collect a sample size of thirty between age group of 18-19 years. Questionnaire was formulated to collect qualitative data on demographic profile and health profile. Anthropometric measurements were done. Quantitative data on dietary intake was collected by 24 hour recall method and health buddy app. The results revealed that regarding nutrient intake, Mean & standard deviation of energy, protein, carbohydrate, fat, fie, calcium, iron, potassium, sodium calculated by 24 hour dietary recall method was 2056.56�656.41, 91.07�41.7, 1775.4�84.23, 126.54�100.60, 31.87�138.73, 52.03�182.67, 12.7�9.58, 719.47�432.45 respectively and by health buddy app was 5784.95�10002.31, 394.23�559.27, 1432.20�1052.81, 308.33�107.06, 184.70�206.87, 5033.14�2487.70, 74.69�202.96, 7257.69�2794.65 respectively and the differences were statistically significant (P>0.05). The study concluded that the health buddy app is not validated as the results are not similar within 5% error. That stated that health buddy cannot be used over 24 hour recall method.