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Assessing the validity of a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in the adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
BACKGROUND: The Food- Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) is a dietary assessment tool frequently used in large-scale nutritional epidemiology studies. The goal of the present study is to validate a self-administered version of the Hawaii FFQ modified for use in the general adult population of Newfoundlan...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23590645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-12-49 |
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author | Liu, Lin Wang, Peizhong Peter Roebothan, Barbara Ryan, Ann Tucker, Christina Sandra Colbourne, Jennifer Baker, Natasha Cotterchio, Michelle Yi, Yanqing Sun, Guang |
author_facet | Liu, Lin Wang, Peizhong Peter Roebothan, Barbara Ryan, Ann Tucker, Christina Sandra Colbourne, Jennifer Baker, Natasha Cotterchio, Michelle Yi, Yanqing Sun, Guang |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Food- Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) is a dietary assessment tool frequently used in large-scale nutritional epidemiology studies. The goal of the present study is to validate a self-administered version of the Hawaii FFQ modified for use in the general adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). METHODS: Over a one year period, 195 randomly selected adults completed four 24-hour dietary recalls (24-HDRs) by telephone and one subsequent self-administered FFQ. Estimates of energy and nutrients derived from the 24-HDRs and FFQs were compared (protein, carbohydrate, fibre, fat, vitamin A, carotene, vitamin D, and calcium). Data were analyzed using the Pearson’s correlation coefficients, cross-classification method, and Bland–Altman plots. RESULTS: The mean nutrient intake values of the 24-HDRs were lower than those of the FFQs, except for protein in men. Sex and energy-adjusted de-attenuated Pearson correlation coefficients for each nutrient varied from 0.13 to 0.61. Except for protein in men, all correlations were statistically significant with p < 0.05. Cross-classification analysis revealed that on average, 74% women and 78% men were classified in the same or adjacent quartile of nutrient intake when comparing data from the FFQ and 24-HDRs. Bland–Altman plots showed no serious systematic bias between the administration of the two instruments over the range of mean intakes. CONCLUSION: This 169-item FFQ developed specifically for the adult NL population had moderate relative validity and therefore can be used in studies to assess food consumption in the general adult population of NL. This tool can be used to classify individual energy and nutrient intakes into quartiles, which is useful in examining relationships between diet and chronic disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-36375082013-05-03 Assessing the validity of a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in the adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Liu, Lin Wang, Peizhong Peter Roebothan, Barbara Ryan, Ann Tucker, Christina Sandra Colbourne, Jennifer Baker, Natasha Cotterchio, Michelle Yi, Yanqing Sun, Guang Nutr J Research BACKGROUND: The Food- Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) is a dietary assessment tool frequently used in large-scale nutritional epidemiology studies. The goal of the present study is to validate a self-administered version of the Hawaii FFQ modified for use in the general adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). METHODS: Over a one year period, 195 randomly selected adults completed four 24-hour dietary recalls (24-HDRs) by telephone and one subsequent self-administered FFQ. Estimates of energy and nutrients derived from the 24-HDRs and FFQs were compared (protein, carbohydrate, fibre, fat, vitamin A, carotene, vitamin D, and calcium). Data were analyzed using the Pearson’s correlation coefficients, cross-classification method, and Bland–Altman plots. RESULTS: The mean nutrient intake values of the 24-HDRs were lower than those of the FFQs, except for protein in men. Sex and energy-adjusted de-attenuated Pearson correlation coefficients for each nutrient varied from 0.13 to 0.61. Except for protein in men, all correlations were statistically significant with p < 0.05. Cross-classification analysis revealed that on average, 74% women and 78% men were classified in the same or adjacent quartile of nutrient intake when comparing data from the FFQ and 24-HDRs. Bland–Altman plots showed no serious systematic bias between the administration of the two instruments over the range of mean intakes. CONCLUSION: This 169-item FFQ developed specifically for the adult NL population had moderate relative validity and therefore can be used in studies to assess food consumption in the general adult population of NL. This tool can be used to classify individual energy and nutrient intakes into quartiles, which is useful in examining relationships between diet and chronic disease. BioMed Central 2013-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3637508/ /pubmed/23590645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-12-49 Text en Copyright © 2013 Liu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Liu, Lin Wang, Peizhong Peter Roebothan, Barbara Ryan, Ann Tucker, Christina Sandra Colbourne, Jennifer Baker, Natasha Cotterchio, Michelle Yi, Yanqing Sun, Guang Assessing the validity of a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in the adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
title | Assessing the validity of a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in the adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
title_full | Assessing the validity of a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in the adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
title_fullStr | Assessing the validity of a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in the adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the validity of a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in the adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
title_short | Assessing the validity of a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in the adult population of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
title_sort | assessing the validity of a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (ffq) in the adult population of newfoundland and labrador, canada |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23590645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-12-49 |
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