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The message writing process behind SmartAPPetite, a smartphone application for improving food knowledge and dietary behaviours among high school adolescents.

2019· preprint· en· W4212874336 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Maggie Assaff, Colleen O’Connor, Jacqueline Siu

Bibliographic record

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Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducational Methods and Impacts
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProcess (computing)PsychologyComputer science

Abstract

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Purpose: Poor dietary behaviours in adolescence can carry into adulthood and contribute to the development of chronic disease; consequently, adolescence is a critical time to establish healthy dietary habits. Since the majority of adolescents own smartphones, smartphone-based interventions to improve food knowledge and dietary behaviours are a logical approach. The objective of this abstract is to describe the message-writing process that was developed to ensure consistent, evidence-based nutrition messages for a smartphone application. Process: SmartAPPetite is a multidimensional application that sends messages to help users make healthier choices. It was developed through an interdisciplinary collaboration with an overall goal of improving food knowledge, food purchasing, and diet quality of adolescents. Systematic approach used: A database of over 1000 messages was created with a range of nutrition and lifestyle topics, such as sports nutrition, eating away from home, information about specific nutrients, seasonality and origin of foods, and how to choose, prepare, and store various fresh food items. A Youth Advisory Council of high-school students assisted with the selection of topics and assessing the relatability of messages. A writing guide was created and used to standardize the messages which included dietitian-approved sources to gather nutrition information. Messages were written by undergraduate and masters level nutrition students, edited by senior writers, and approved by dietitians. Using program algorithms, SmartAPPetite selected messages from the database according to the user's age, sex, and reported dietary preferences. User feedback also allowed the app to continually adjust message selection algorithms. Conclusions: SmartAPPetite messages have undergone a thorough planning, writing, editing, and approval process to ensure users are provided with evidence-based, expert recommended nutrition and lifestyle messages. Recommendations: A systematic approach must be used to ensure nutrition and healthy lifestyle messages are of high-quality and evidence-based. Significance to field of dietetics: Nutrition-related smartphone applications have the potential to reach a large proportion of Canadian adolescents and enhance dietary behaviours.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.017
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.039
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.091

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0170.039
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.331 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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