Littlelife: children nutrition monitoring system/ Joyce Ann L. Dagundon, Abegail L. Horii, Francis Mariel Maitim, Jenny Rose Naido, and Catherine Salarza .--

Thesis (undergraduate)

College of Science .-- Bachelor of Science in Information System: Technological University of the Philippines, 2024.

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This capstone project aimed to address the pressing need for an effective child nutrition
monitoring system in Barangay Pamplona Tres through the development and evaluation of
the “LittleLife: Children Nutrition Monitoring System.” The overall goal was to ensure that
the nutritional status of children is observed, assessed, and evaluated by coming up with a
solution to solve the challenges faced by the local health workers in tracking and managing
children’s nutritional problems. For this reason, a web-based application was designed, which
possesses features like chart-based reweighing according to the WHO Child Growth
Standard, inventory tracking of stocks of resources like micronutrients and food packs,
activity tracking, and sending of notifications through SMS to the guardians whose child
belongs to the Complementary Program. The need to develop this system originated from an
understanding of the significance of nutrition in early childhood and the realization that
previous manual tracking and monitoring systems were inadequate in capturing nutritional
input accurately hence allowing analysis of the same for growth and development. In this
study, software development tools that included Visual Studios Code IDE, Xampp, Git,
DBMS, JavaScript, Laravel, Bootstrap, MySQL, PhpExcel, PHP Native, and jQuery were
used, and the testing and evaluation were done based on the ISO 25010 criteria. The outcome
of the evaluation revealed that the designed system’s functional suitability, performance
efficiency, compatibility, usability, reliability, security, maintainability, and portability are of
high levels. These results demonstrated the success of the system in achieving its goals and
objectives, and in satisfying the user requirements. Nevertheless, there is a need to improve
this more in terms of layout, adding alert notifications for guardians in real-time, adding
account features for the parent, tracking the vaccination, and providing educational materials.
Therefore, this research pointed out the need to enhance the use of technology to strengthen
monitoring of child nutrition, and the need for systematic enhancements to meet dynamic
needs and technologies to promote the welfare of children in the community.