The Support System for Weight Control Using Food Assistance Through the Website and Notifications on Mobile Phone

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop the support system for weight control using food assistance through the website and notifications on mobile phone, and 2) to evaluate system performance by the users’ satisfaction on the support system. The ability of the system was as follows: helps decide to eat each day to the appropriate level and be nutritional, create a self- service diet table, food item notification via mobile and recording of food control results. The tools of research were the support system for weight control using food assistance through the website and notifications on mobile phone and satisfaction questionnaire. The system developed as a web application ( Wed Application) , system development in accordance with the development cycle using Water Fall Model developed in PHP and design a user interface with Appserv and use MySQL for database management. The results of the evaluation showed that the suitability of the support system using the questionnaire collected from 3 experts and the sample by using 30 purposive sampling showed that the evaluation of the suitability of the system was very high ( X̅ = 4. 24, S.D. = 0.59), and satisfaction of users on the system was at a high level (X̅ = 4.36, S.D. = 0.57).