Food Talk: A New App for Daily Food Monitoring

Dietary Intake Clinical Trial

Official title:

Food Talk: A New App for Daily Food Monitoring

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03869658
• Other study ID #: 1234
• Status: Completed
• Start date: August 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: September 2019
• Source: Tufts University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This project will pilot test a new app for self-monitoring food intake using natural spoken language (by voice recognition or text) to provide daily estimates of energy and nutrient intakes with a phone app.

Description:

Self-recording food intake is recommended for weight management and healthy eating. However, current methods, including web platforms and apps, are often burdensome leading to short-term use by the consumer. The solution uses cutting-edge speech and language understanding technology to streamline the food logging process. With this technology, the user simply describes what they ate and the system automatically selects the appropriate items and quantities consumed from the USDA food database, which calculates the nutrition profile of the entry.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Generally healthy men and women 18-65 years if age

• Currently participating in ongoing studies at the HNRCA

• Willing and able to sign written informed consent prior to study entry

• iPhone (iOS 11 or higher) user willing to download the COCO application and record food intake for 5 days

Exclusion Criteria:

• Android or iPhone (iOs 10 or lower) user unable to download and use the COCO application

• Holds a graduate degree in nutrition

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Dietary Intake

Intervention

Behavioral:
• COCO application
All participants will complete a screening survey to determine their eligibility for the study, if eligible and willing to participate, he or she will sign an informed consent form. Once participants are enrolled in the study, a demographics questionnaire will be completed along with 5 days of food tracking on the COCO application. Between days 3 and 7, participants will complete two 24-hr diet recall, one a day, and a patient satisfaction questionnaire.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging	Boston	Massachusetts

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tufts University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (3)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Application feasibility	Feasibility of the use of the application to record dietary intake will be measured through a patient satisfaction questionnaire.	Betweens days 5 and 7
Primary	Change in energy intake using food application COCO	The primary outcome will be to assess whether food capture using the mobile application is comparable with conventional 24-hour dietary recall. This will be done by measuring the energy intake (mean of two days) in the two methods.	Between days 3 and 7 of the study
Primary	Change in energy intake using 24 hour dietary recall	The primary outcome will be to assess whether food capture using the mobile application is comparable with conventional 24-hour dietary recall. This will be done by measuring the energy intake (mean of two days) in the two methods.	Between days 3 and 7 of the study
Secondary	Accuracy of food capture method using mobile application	The secondary outcome will measure the energy and nutrient content reported by the mobile application over time. Measured energy intake in a subset of participants in another study that provides dietary intake data will be compared to food intake data using the mobile application.	Between days 3 and 7 of the study