Desenvolvimento e aplicação de ferramentas digitais na avaliação do consumo alimentar em inquéritos nutricionais no Brasil: Uma revisão de escopo

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Adriane dos Santos da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: [e-mail]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/17561
• topic: Métodos de evaluación dietética; Herramientas digitales; Revisión del alcance; Dietary Assessment Methods; Digital tools; Brazil; Scope Review; Nutrição; Alimentos, Dieta e Nutrição; Revisão; Métodos de Avaliação dietéticos; Ferramentas digitais; Brasil; Revisão de Escopo; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO::ANALISE NUTRICIONAL DE POPULACAO

The objective of this review was to map the use of digital tools for food intake assessment in Brazil. This is a scoping review, based on the procedures recommended by the Joanna Briggs Institute, with the following research question: “What is the purpose, extent, scope and nature of the digital food consumption assessment tools used in Brazil?”. For the selection of studies, the following inclusion criteria were used: all types of publications available in full, with free access, and that portrayed the theme of interest. Studies that did not address aspects inherent to the research question, incomplete materials or studies not available in full, book chapters, literature reviews, and lack of clarity about the tool used to collect the nutritional surveys were excluded. The searches were conducted in national and international databases until August 2021. To expand the mapping, searches were also conducted in gray literature and by contacting researchers. After mapping, the studies were selected by two independent reviewers, respecting the inclusion criteria. Of the 1258 studies found, 403 were selected to be read in full, resulting in a final selection of 73 studies, in which it was possible to identify 44 types of digital tools, with the predominance of Web-based tools and mobile devices platforms applied to food intake assessment methods. The studies were published in the period from 2004 to 2021, with a significant increase in the number of studies from 2012. Regarding the area of coverage, it is noteworthy that 35 (49.3%) were population-based studies, followed by 21 (29.6%) conducted in the state of São Paulo. A predominance of cross-sectional studies was identified, with emphasis on the growth of validation studies in recent years. This review identified that the development and use of digital tools for food intake assessment have been growing in Brazil in recent years. However, studies are still needed to contribute to the improvement of data quality, stimulate the emergence of new tools and develop a national guide of best practices, helping researchers to choose the most appropriate tool for their research. In this sense, the expansion of public and private investments to expand the use of the Internet and mobile devices; improve digital literacy; and ensure the creation of new technologies, especially in the less favored regions of the country, are future challenges that require equity of opportunities, development, expansion, and validation of digital tools in studies on food consumption assessment.