[Development of a current version of a software application for research and practice in human nutrition (GRUNUMUR 2.0)]

Nutr Hosp. 2012 Sep-Oct;27(5):1576-82. doi: 10.3305/nh.2012.27.5.5940.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

The aim of this paper is the description of a new version of the software application GRUNUMUR, a useful tool for human nutrition studies designed by the Nutrition Research Group from the Murcia University. Similar to the first, this second version offers the possibility to address different types of study: dietary habits (24 h recall, 7-days dietary record and Food Frequency Questionnaire), epidemiological, anthropometrical and clinical studies. The new version, called GRUNUMUR 2.0, compatible with the first one, has an online help system for all functions of the application, providing the user tasks, allows safe storage of a virtually unlimited number of results, in an orderly and organized way, you can retrieve it when required, through a system of backups and scheduled maintenance and unattended (tasks performed by a server), another advantage is its total accessibility, both from the university intranet (www.um.es) and from the internet, it works via Web Browser (http://senver.inf.um.es/esen), and finally, allows data to be exported to Excel for further processing with other applications as well as publishing reports in PDF, to deliver study participants if necessary. The new version has been validated by comparing the extracted results with those obtained from the other software with no significant differences for any of the variables analyzed. The application GRUNUMUR 2.0 is a tool improved, useful and reliable for addressing human nutrition studies.

MeSH terms

  • Anthropometry
  • Deficiency Diseases / diagnosis
  • Deficiency Diseases / epidemiology
  • Epidemiologic Methods
  • Feeding Behavior
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Nutrition Assessment
  • Nutrition Disorders / epidemiology
  • Nutritional Sciences / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Research
  • Research Design
  • Software*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires