A Reduced Dietary Questionnaire Development And Validation

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A reduced dietary questionnaire development and validation. Although this method may be less accurate than weighed dietary records and 24 hour diet recalls it is a simple tool to assess the habitual dietary patterns of many subjects and is useful for large scale surveys. The food frequency questionnaire ffq is often used in epidemiological studies to assess long term eating habits. A reduced questionnaire was developed by successively omitting segments of the full 98 item block questionnaire and calculating the correlations. Dietary assessment tools are often too long difficult to quantify expensive to process and largely used for research purposes.

The reduced version was validated against three four day records in a group of middle aged women and against two seven day records collected 10 15 years ago in a group of older men. 90 kaic rak a antonic k 1990 tables of chemical composition of food and drinks. Hartman and darlene naughton a reduced questionnaire was developed by successively omitting segments of the full 98 item block questionnaire and calculating the correlations between nutrient estimates produced by the full and reduced versions. A cross sectional validation study was carried out in two phases.

A reduced dietary questionnaire. Development and validation gladys block anne m. The reduced version contains 60 food items and requires 17 minutes to administer by an interviewer. A rapid and accurate assessment of dietary fat intake is critically important in clinical decision making regarding dietary advice for coronary risk reduction.

Ffqs are also. The absolute value of macronutrients estimated by the reduced questionnaire was lower than food record estimates. 1 division of cancer prevention and control national cancer institute bethesda md 20892. A reduced dietary questionnaire.

Dietary data are updated every 4 y in the nhs since 1980 nhs ii since 1991 and hpfs since 1986 with a semi quantitative ffq the validity and reliability of which have been reported 27 29 we used dietary data from the questionnaires closest to the blood draw i e the 1986 and 1990 ffqs for the nhs the 1995 and 1999 ffqs for the nhs ii. A reduced questionnaire was developed by successively omitting segments of the full 98 item block questionnaire and calculating the correlations between nutrient estimates produced by the full and reduced versions. Assessment of dietary and nondietary data. 89 block g hartman am naughton d 1990 a reduced dietary questionnaire.

There are no published validation studies including the current block brief 2000 ffq. Block g hartman am naughton d. 1 questionnaire planning and development and 2 determination of reliability internal consistency. The study sample comprised 48 nurses 105 dietetic interns and 367 registered dietitians.

We assessed the validity of the medficts mf questionnaire a brief instrument developed to assess fat. It is intended to capture all nutrients in the diet as is the full version.