A Smartphone App for Families With Preschool-Aged Children in a Public Nutrition Program: Prototype Development and Beta-Testing

Pamela Hull   ¹ , PhD ;   Janice S Emerson   ² , PhD ;   Meghan E Quirk   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Juan R Canedo   ^{4, 5} , DHSc ;   Jessica L Jones   ² , MS ;   Violetta Vylegzhanina   ⁶ , MS ;   Douglas C Schmidt   ⁶ , PhD ;   Shelagh A Mulvaney   ⁷ , PhD ;   Bettina M Beech   ⁸ , MPH, DrPH ;   Chiquita Briley   ⁹ , PhD ;   Calvin Harris   ² , MS ;   Baqar A Husaini   ² , PhD

¹ Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States

² Center for Prevention Research, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, United States

³ The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC, United States

⁴ Progreso Community Center, Nashville, TN, United States

⁵ Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, United States

⁶ Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

⁷ School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

⁸ Departments of Pediatrics and Family Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States

⁹ Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, United States