Dietary Calcium Intake Questionnaire

This report describes a new frequency and amount questionnaire for measuring present and past calcium intake in the elderly.

Dietary calcium intake questionnaire. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a new simple food frequency questionnaire ffq for dietary intake of calcium and other nutrients relevant to the bone health of adult japanese women. Development and validation of a food frequency questionnaire for assessing dietary calcium intake in the general population. Dietary calcium intake could therefore be useful in both. 13 14 as for validity the spearman rank correlation coefficients of calcium intake for the baseline questionnaire and four 1 week dietary records obtained after an interval of 3 to 4 months were 0 56 for men and 0 37 for women 13 and those for the 1 year.

Using photographs it is intended to measure the average calcium intake for the previous year in the elderly. Dietary calcium intake is an important variable to measure accurately when investigating bone health. There have been no simple methods to estimate dietary nutrient intakes for the prevention and management of osteoporosis. The validity of the questionnaire was tested against two commonly used standards of dietary assessment five day duplicate diets and seven day weighed dietary inventories.

Food total per week multiplied by total mg calcium. This tool is a comprehensive quantitative paper based food frequency questionnaire which includes 10 questions and 9 food items. For cups of tea with milk if you have tea 21 times in a week. The reproducibility and validity of the questionnaires have been reported elsewhere.