Autor(es): Guerreiro, Mara Pereira ; Félix, Isa Brito ; Camolas, José Miguel Lopes
Data: 2023
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61651
Origem: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Assunto(s): Chronic diseases; Diet; Digital; Disease prevention; E-health; M-health; Nutrition; Self-management (self-care)
Chronic diseases are a global epidemic, responsible for the majority of deaths worldwide. Diet and nutrition play an important role in preventing and managing high-burden chronic diseases. Digital technology became popular for supporting the nutrition care process and enhancing dietary self-management through interventions targeting persons at risk or living with chronic disease, health care professionals or both. Work portrayed in this Research Topic includes the development and validation of a nutrition self-screening tool (IBD-NST) for the management of inflammatory bowel disease by Wall et al. Digitization offers the advantage of automated calculation of measures integral to the tool, lessening the completion workload. Additionally, subsuming the tool in apps and digital platforms can improve access to self-screening and foster integration of care. Another example of digitisation is the work of Verbeke et al., which outlines the psychometric evaluation of a short food frequency questionnaire in Dutch, firstly paper-based and then in a web version. Food frequency questionnaires are amongst the most used dietary assessment instruments, therefore validated digital versions are useful both for research and clinical purposes. Griauzde et al. illustrate how a system for virtual consultations was successfully used to deliver a very low-carbohydrate diabetes prevention programme to US Veterans with prediabetes. Such an approach is promising for improved enrollment and retention, given the low participation of eligible Veterans in the in-person, telephone, or video sessions of the Weight Management Programme MOVE!
