A Development of a dietary thesaurus and food corpus for diet record survey

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K00856
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Eating habits
• Research Institution: Shigakkan University (2016-2018); Nagoya Women's University (2015)
• Principal Investigator: Imaeda Nahomi 至学館大学, 健康科学部, 教授 (80387662)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 野崎 浩成 愛知教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (80275148) ; 中村 美詠子 浜松医科大学, 医学部, 准教授 (30236012) ; 中畑 典子 島根県立大学, 看護栄養学部, 講師 (40299889)
• Research Collaborator: Doman Keisuke 中京大学, 工学部, 講師 (90645748)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-10-21 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 食事調査 / 食事摂取量 / 生活習慣病予防

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To simplify methods for the dietary survey, we discussed the process of convert the food number from the words in which people report their food intakes (food coding), and have been developing a pilot software for the dietary survey. The task of food coding is the most laborious for dietary records surveys. Therefore, using food records for residents collected in the previous year, we observed what names frequently reported foods. Furthermore, we analysis familiar and huge database for recipes site, we found many food names which were not listed in the Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan. By summarizing these food and dishes names, we have prototyped a search database used for coding of food records survey.

Free Research Field

栄養疫学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

食事アセスメントは，生活習慣病の発症予防および重症化予防に強く関連する管理栄養士の技能である．また食事調査の結果は、できるだけバイアスの少ない対象者から情報収集されるべきであるが、現在は健康に関心が高い理想的な人のデータに偏りがちである。今回の研究で作成した食物のデータベースは、たくさんの人に気軽に食事調査を受けてもらえるようにする環境整備として利用価値がある。