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A Dietary Assessment Training Course Path: The Italian IV SCAI Study on Children Food Consumption

The eating patterns in a population can be estimated through dietary surveys in which open-ended assessment methods, such as diaries and interviews, or semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaires are administered. A harmonized dietary survey methodology, together with a standardized operational...

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Autores principales: Turrini, Aida, Catasta, Giovina, Censi, Laura, Comendador Azcarraga, Francisco Javier, D'Addezio, Laura, Ferrari, Marika, Le Donne, Cinzia, Martone, Deborah, Mistura, Lorenza, Pettinelli, Antonella, Piccinelli, Raffaela, Saba, Anna, Sette, Stefania, Barbina, Donatella, Guerrera, Debora, Carbone, Pietro, Mazzaccara, Alfonso
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7994926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.590315
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author Turrini, Aida
Catasta, Giovina
Censi, Laura
Comendador Azcarraga, Francisco Javier
D'Addezio, Laura
Ferrari, Marika
Le Donne, Cinzia
Martone, Deborah
Mistura, Lorenza
Pettinelli, Antonella
Piccinelli, Raffaela
Saba, Anna
Sette, Stefania
Barbina, Donatella
Guerrera, Debora
Carbone, Pietro
Mazzaccara, Alfonso
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Catasta, Giovina
Censi, Laura
Comendador Azcarraga, Francisco Javier
D'Addezio, Laura
Ferrari, Marika
Le Donne, Cinzia
Martone, Deborah
Mistura, Lorenza
Pettinelli, Antonella
Piccinelli, Raffaela
Saba, Anna
Sette, Stefania
Barbina, Donatella
Guerrera, Debora
Carbone, Pietro
Mazzaccara, Alfonso
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description The eating patterns in a population can be estimated through dietary surveys in which open-ended assessment methods, such as diaries and interviews, or semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaires are administered. A harmonized dietary survey methodology, together with a standardized operational procedure, in conducting the study is crucial to ensure the comparability of the results and the accuracy of information, thus reducing uncertainty and increasing the reliability of the results. Dietary patterns (i) include several target variables (foods, energy and nutrients, other food components), (ii) require several explanatory variables (age, gender, anthropometric measurements, socio-cultural and economic characteristics, lifestyle, preferences, attitudes, beliefs, organization of food-related activities, etc.), and (iii) have impacts in several domains: imbalance diets; acute and chronic exposures affect health, specifically non-communicable diseases; and then sanitary expenditure. On the other hand, food demand has impacts on the food system: production, distribution, and food services system; food wastes and other wastes generated by food-related activities of the households (e.g., packaging disposal) have consequences on the “health of the planet” which in turn can have effects on human health. Harmonization and standardization of measurement methods and procedures in such a complex context require an ad hoc structured information system made by databases (food nomenclatures, portion sizes, food atlas, recipes) and methodological tools (quantification methods, food coding systems, assessment of nutritional status, data processing to extrapolate what we consider validated dietary data). Establishing a community of professionals specialized in dietary data management could lead to build a surveillance system for monitoring eating habits in the short term, thus reducing costs, and to arrange a training re-training system. Creating and maintaining the dietary data managers community is challenging but possible. In this context, the cooperation between the CREA Research Centre for Food and Nutrition and the Italian National Health Institute (ISS) promoted and supported by the Italian Ministry of Health may represent a model of best practice that can ensure a continuous training for the professional community carrying out a nutritional study.
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spelling pubmed-79949262021-03-27 A Dietary Assessment Training Course Path: The Italian IV SCAI Study on Children Food Consumption Turrini, Aida Catasta, Giovina Censi, Laura Comendador Azcarraga, Francisco Javier D'Addezio, Laura Ferrari, Marika Le Donne, Cinzia Martone, Deborah Mistura, Lorenza Pettinelli, Antonella Piccinelli, Raffaela Saba, Anna Sette, Stefania Barbina, Donatella Guerrera, Debora Carbone, Pietro Mazzaccara, Alfonso Front Public Health Public Health The eating patterns in a population can be estimated through dietary surveys in which open-ended assessment methods, such as diaries and interviews, or semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaires are administered. A harmonized dietary survey methodology, together with a standardized operational procedure, in conducting the study is crucial to ensure the comparability of the results and the accuracy of information, thus reducing uncertainty and increasing the reliability of the results. Dietary patterns (i) include several target variables (foods, energy and nutrients, other food components), (ii) require several explanatory variables (age, gender, anthropometric measurements, socio-cultural and economic characteristics, lifestyle, preferences, attitudes, beliefs, organization of food-related activities, etc.), and (iii) have impacts in several domains: imbalance diets; acute and chronic exposures affect health, specifically non-communicable diseases; and then sanitary expenditure. On the other hand, food demand has impacts on the food system: production, distribution, and food services system; food wastes and other wastes generated by food-related activities of the households (e.g., packaging disposal) have consequences on the “health of the planet” which in turn can have effects on human health. Harmonization and standardization of measurement methods and procedures in such a complex context require an ad hoc structured information system made by databases (food nomenclatures, portion sizes, food atlas, recipes) and methodological tools (quantification methods, food coding systems, assessment of nutritional status, data processing to extrapolate what we consider validated dietary data). Establishing a community of professionals specialized in dietary data management could lead to build a surveillance system for monitoring eating habits in the short term, thus reducing costs, and to arrange a training re-training system. Creating and maintaining the dietary data managers community is challenging but possible. In this context, the cooperation between the CREA Research Centre for Food and Nutrition and the Italian National Health Institute (ISS) promoted and supported by the Italian Ministry of Health may represent a model of best practice that can ensure a continuous training for the professional community carrying out a nutritional study. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7994926/ /pubmed/33777877 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.590315 Text en Copyright © 2021 Turrini, Catasta, Censi, Comendador Azcarraga, D'Addezio, Ferrari, Le Donne, Martone, Mistura, Pettinelli, Piccinelli, Saba, Sette, Barbina, Guerrera, Carbone and Mazzaccara. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Turrini, Aida
Catasta, Giovina
Censi, Laura
Comendador Azcarraga, Francisco Javier
D'Addezio, Laura
Ferrari, Marika
Le Donne, Cinzia
Martone, Deborah
Mistura, Lorenza
Pettinelli, Antonella
Piccinelli, Raffaela
Saba, Anna
Sette, Stefania
Barbina, Donatella
Guerrera, Debora
Carbone, Pietro
Mazzaccara, Alfonso
A Dietary Assessment Training Course Path: The Italian IV SCAI Study on Children Food Consumption
title A Dietary Assessment Training Course Path: The Italian IV SCAI Study on Children Food Consumption
title_full A Dietary Assessment Training Course Path: The Italian IV SCAI Study on Children Food Consumption
title_fullStr A Dietary Assessment Training Course Path: The Italian IV SCAI Study on Children Food Consumption
title_full_unstemmed A Dietary Assessment Training Course Path: The Italian IV SCAI Study on Children Food Consumption
title_short A Dietary Assessment Training Course Path: The Italian IV SCAI Study on Children Food Consumption
title_sort dietary assessment training course path: the italian iv scai study on children food consumption
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7994926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.590315
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