{"id":1581,"date":"2011-06-16T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2011-06-16T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:48:17","slug":"designing-a-digital-dietician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"Designing a digital dietician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1582\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><strong><\/strong><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1582\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?attachment_id=1582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1582\" title=\"scienceapp_dsc2209bew\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/wp-content\/uploads\/scienceapp_dsc2209bew-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Thy Nguyen with a prototype of the dietician App. (Photo: Tomas van Dijk)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A healthy diet is especially important for couples wishing to become  parents. Kim Thy Nguyen (MSc) designed a webtool to help prospective  parents improve their eating patterns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medical doctor and epidemiologist, Professor Dr Regine  Steegers-Theunissen, of Erasmus Medical Centre, has been actively  promoting healthy food patterns and lifestyles for parents-to-be.  Healthy diets and lifestyles and successful pregnancies are not related  like cause and effect, but the associations are strong. In 2007,  Steegers-Theunissen started a preconception clinic, called &#8216;Achieving a  healthy pregnancy&#8217;, to help make couples aware of their diet and  lifestyle as preparation for their future pregnancies. But she wished to  further support and guide couples &#8211; yes, also the men &#8211; about food and  drink issues before and during pregnancy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kim Thy Nguyen (MSc)  took up the gauntlet for her MSc thesis at the faculty of Industrial  Design and Engineering. She was to make a website annex app for the  target group tailored to nutrition and lifestyle improvement. Nguyen  made use of her two years of psychology studies at Erasmus University.  She knew that behavioural change is a difficult thing to achieve and  that James Prochaska had written a &#8217;transtheoretical model&#8217; about this  in which he argued that behavioural change &#8211; like quitting smoking &#8211;  develops in five or six steps. Only when people have arrived at a  certain level, do they become sensitive to health information.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen  developed a website prototype which provides interested couples with  information about healthy nutrition. The couples are asked to keep score  of the items they eat and drink. The programme then provides feedback  on the quantities and items and also issues health tips (\u00b4try a less fat  cheese instead\u00b4). A fellow-student from the Haagse Hogeschool, Joyce  Boer, wrote the diet tips and recipes. An overview page shows the  participant and his\/her doctor what parts of the diet are on target  (green check mark) or not quite there yet (red cross).<\/p>\n<p>The  prototype on www.slimmerzwanger.nl is Nguyen&#8217;s &#8216;masterpiece&#8217;.  Programmers will now have to develop it into a web service that  interested couples can login to. Nguyen hopes the application will  ultimately be developed for smart phones, bringing &#8216;E-healthcare&#8217; up  close and personal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kim Thy Nguyen, &#8216;Slimmer zwanger&#8217;, MSc  thesis, 10 June 2011, supervisors Prof. Richard Goossens and Prof. Dr.  Regine Steegers-Theunissen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A healthy diet is especially important for couples wishing to become parents. 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