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- Title
Computerised dietary assessment interviews: Health professionals and patients' opinions about web communications.
- Authors
PROBST, Yasmine C.; TAPSELL, Linda C.
- Abstract
Aim: To describe the acceptance of DietAdvice, an automated dietary assessment website, by its stakeholders. Methods: One-month evaluation study using audio-recorded telephone interviews with 10 patients who had used DietAdvice, 10 dietitians, 10 general practitioners who recruited many patients and 10 general practitioners who recruited few or no patients to the website to obtain their beliefs and opinions about DietAdvice, health, nutrition and technology. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed for categorical themes using NVivo software. Results: Patients were concerned about Internet difficulties and had a preference for face-to-face interviews and dietitians felt that DietAdvice could save time prior to dietary education and counselling. Recruiting general practitioners believed that patient computer literacy was a limitation, although increased availability of dietary services created by DietAdvice. Non-recruiting general practitioners felt that they had a lack of time available to recruit patients, patient computer literacy was limited and there was a need for face-to-face contact. Conclusion: The perspectives of patients and health-care providers show variation based on their experience with DietAdvice, their focus on nutrition and their role in the health-care system. Automated technologies are likely to play a significant part in the future of dietetics.
- Subjects
NUTRITIONAL assessment; ATTITUDE (Psychology); ATTITUDE testing; AUTOMATIC data collection systems; CONSUMER attitudes; DIETITIANS; INGESTION; INTERVIEWING; MEDICAL personnel; PATIENTS; GENERAL practitioners; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SELF-evaluation; SOUND recordings; WORLD Wide Web; EVALUATION research; THEMATIC analysis
- Publication
Nutrition & Dietetics, 2012, Vol 69, Issue 1, p56
- ISSN
1446-6368
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1747-0080.2011.01573.x