Assessing individual dietary intake from common-plate meals: a new tool for an enduring practice

Abstract

Objective: The purposes of the present study were to estimate individual intake from common-plate meals among Bedouin Arabs using a modified 24 h recall questionnaire, and to evaluate reported energy intake (EI) by comparison with estimated energy requirement (EER). Design: Weighed records were used to develop a method of quantifying intake from common plates. Reported EI and nutrient intakes were obtained from administration of the modified 24 h recall. The relative standard error (RSE) was used to evaluate the reliability of reported nutrient intakes. The FAO/WHO/ United Nations University and Oxford equations and reported physical activity levels were used to compute ratios of reported EI to BMR and EER. Conclusions:The modified 24 h recall produced plausible estimates of energy and nutrient intakes, comparable to those obtained with the 24 h recall in other populations. The modified questionnaire makes an important contribution to facilitating large-scale nutritional surveillance in the Bedouin population, and may serve as a model for modifying dietary instruments to quantify individual intake in other populations that practise common-plate eating.

Rapid assessment tools for ranking pregnant minority women into multi-nutrient exposure groups

“…The BNS, which has been described in detail elsewhere (31,33) , was conducted during 2001-2003 and was based on a convenience sample of 519 Bedouin adults that included a broad geographical cross-section of the population. Dietary intake data were collected using a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) 24 h recall questionnaire modified for estimating individual intake from common-plate meals (31) . The sample for the DEPOSIT study (n 683), conducted from 2003 to 2006, was recruited from among parous Bedouin women with singleton pregnancies who were attending the prenatal care clinics of the Ministry of Health or the outpatient prenatal care clinic of the main regional hospital, Soroka University Medical Center.…”

Dietary Assessment of Shared Plate Eating: A Missing Link

“…The majority of studies that have assessed shared plate eating were undertaken in LLMIC including: Gambia [9] Burkino Faso [10,11,12] and Egypt [13], two in Nepal [14,15], two in India [16,17], Sri Lanka [18] and Zambia [19] with one study each identified as undertaken in Japan and Israel [20] representing higher income countries [21] (Table 1). Studies on shared plate eating were carried out with mothers and children [10,11], children only [14,15,18,19], or adults [9,13,16,17,20,21]. Sample sizes ranged from 17 to 3908.…”

“…Sample sizes ranged from 17 to 3908. Shared plate eating was found to contribute between 30 and 88% of total daily energy intake [20]. More frequent shared plate eating was reported in rural locations when compared with urban areas [20].…”

“…Shared plate eating was found to contribute between 30 and 88% of total daily energy intake [20]. More frequent shared plate eating was reported in rural locations when compared with urban areas [20]. There was no trend identified towards more studies being published in recent years with three studies published in the 1990s and only 3 studies published in 2010 or later.…”

“…Dietary assessment methods used to assess intakes from shared plate eating (Table 1) were varied and included 24HR (four studies) [11,12,19,20], two studies that used direct observation [14,15] or food weighing [10,21], and one study using a dietary survey study [17]. Two studies utilised multiple dietary methods; one study used [16] interviews, diet history questionnaire and 24HR while another study used direct observation and ingredient weighing to capture dietary intake [9].…”