Quick Check Validation

Research period: 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020

In recent years, the company Dato Denkwerkzeuge has developed quick checks to assess the recommended intake of folic acid, iodine, iron and DHA.

These four nutrients are considered critical for certain groups of people (e.g. pregnant women, senior citizens). Determining the supply status or the required intake is time-consuming because it either has to be determined using laboratory analyses or by recording the food intake and subsequently calculating the nutritional value.

Quick Checks shorten and simplify this determination of the supply status by only asking about relevant foods. Quick Checks are now used in nutritional counselling.

Dato Denkwerkzeuge approached FH Campus Wien with the aim of validating the four Quick Checks developed in-house to assess the recommended intake of folic acid, iodine, iron and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The project goal is to conduct and present the results of a study to determine the reproducibility and consistency with the laboratory chemical nutrient status. The company can utilise the results as scientific substantiation of the measurement properties of the Quick Checks.

INDICATION

Health Care Research

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