Dawit, Girma (2016) Designing a Web-Based Nutritional Decision Support System for Diabetic Patients. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Nutritional decision support system is a system that facilitates not only diabetic patients but also anyone in their day to day life by advising them with what nutritional decisions they should be making and what kind of food and drink they should really take or avoid. Medical nutritional therapy is important in preventing diabetics, managing existing diabetics or at least slowing the rate of development of diabetic complications to this end. The main objective of this Project is to design a Web-Based nutritional decision support system for diabetic patients. The project used a survey method combined with a design approach followed byanobjectoriented system development methodology. For data collection interview and document analysis was done. Different unified modeling language tools such as use case, class, activity and deployment diagramswere used to design the system. The project was conducted from December 2015 to June 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Since there was no previously designed nutritional decision support systems for diabetic patients in Ethiopia this project is a starting point for the improvement of managing diabetes through nutrition. The project has laid down a platform for using nutritional guidelines. Every contents developed have been selected to match the lifestyle and food types of every Ethiopian where there foods can be found in any market available. The contents were then translated to Amharic and the designed interface was in Amharic. Furthermore the system also has a registration form where a patient fills his personal information to register and ask a certified dietitian what he feels is missing from the website.Afterwhich the dietitian will respond to his queries according to the patient’s personal information. It also provides news about diabetes and also provides details about diabetes mellitus illness like causes Information is a critical component in managing health through nutrition As a resulta proper and standardized way of delivering nutritional recommendations can improve communications among the Diabetes patients and Dietitians and help them obtain the right kind of information to enable themselves manage and controlling their nutrition intake. Therefore this project provides the perfect platform to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Nutritional Decision Support System; Diabetic patients; Web-Based System |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Selom Ghislain |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2018 08:41 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2018 08:41 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/5751 |
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