Development and evaluation of a Nutrition Transition-FFQ for adolescents in South India

Shaikh, Nida; Frediani, Jennifer K.; Ramakrishnan, Usha; Patil, Sangamesh A.; Yount, Kathryn M.; Martorell, Reynaldo; Narayan, K.M. Venkat; Cunningham, Solveig A.

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“…We have developed an FFQ to include a wide range of food items that are usually consumed and is representative of the common dietary patterns of the population in Kerala, India. To our knowledge, this 360-item FFQ is the largest to be validated for use in this region [12,18]. The validated FFQ could be used as a suitable tool to identify important dietary intake patterns in the region of Kerala as part of future studies.…”

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The Evaluation and Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among the Population in Trivandrum, South Kerala, India

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Dietary record tools such as food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and food diaries (FD) are the most commonly used choices for assessing dietary intakes in most large-scale epidemiological studies. The authors developed a self-administered 360-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) to assess dietary intakes amongst a population-based cohort in South Kerala. In the validation study (n = 460), the data were collected using FFQs that were administered on three different occasions which were then compared to 7-day food records. The intake of foods and nutrients was higher as determined by the FFQ than that assessed using food records. Spearman correlations for macro-nutrients ranged from 0.72 for protein to 0.61 for carbohydrates and for micronutrients, from 0.71 for vitamin B6 to 0.34 for magnesium. The correlation was improved with energy-adjusted nutrient intakes. On average, the exact agreement for the macronutrients ranged from 48.2% to 57.1%, and that for micronutrients ranged from 66.7% to 41.9%, with the median percentage of 49.58%. The authors conclude that the FFQ has an acceptable reproducibility, however, there was a systematic trend towards higher estimates with the FFQ for most nutrients compared to the FD records.

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The Evaluation and Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among the Population in Trivandrum, South Kerala, India

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“…These modules have the potential to elucidate the relationship among agricultural development programmes, women's empowerment, and health and nutritional outcomes. Before adopting these new modules broadly, it is necessary to test them with the participant population (Crandall, Rahim, & Yount, ; Galié et al, ; Shaikh et al, ; Yount, VanderEnde, Dodell, & Cheong, ). Cognitive interviewing is a useful approach to understand whether questions are understood as intended, the motivations for responses, and whether the given responses reflect participants' experiences.…”

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Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project‐level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index

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Maternal & Child Nutrition

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In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, which include fostering gender equality and women's empowerment and ending hunger and malnutrition. To monitor progress and evaluate programmes that aim to achieve these goals, survey instruments are needed that can accurately assess related indicators. The project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) is being developed to address the need for an instrument that is sensitive to changes in empowerment over the duration of an intervention. The pro-WEAI includes new modules with previously untested survey questions, including a health and nutrition module (focused on women's agency in this area) and an intrahousehold relationships module. This study uses cognitive interviewing to identify how new survey questions might be misinterpreted and to understand what experiences women are referencing when they respond to these questions. This was undertaken with the goal of informing revision to the modules. The study was conducted in Bangladesh with women from nuclear, extended, and migrant-sending households and from two regions of the country to identify difficulties with interpretation and response formulation across these groups. Findings revealed that questions were generally understood, but participants occasionally responded to the wrong part of the question, did not understand key phrases, or were uncomfortable with questions. The findings also suggested ways to revise the modules and strengthen the pro-WEAI. The revised pro-WEAI health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules will advance the ability to measure changes in these domains and their relationship with the health and nutritional status of women and their children.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Additional supporting information may be found online in the Supporting Information section at the end of the article. How to cite this article: Hannan A, Heckert J, James-Hawkins L, Yount KM. Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index.

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“…After the year 2000, it has been an emerging emphasis on the individual's responsibility for maintaining health through lifestyle choices (Ahola-Launonen, 2015). In the life style transition an additional concept, nutrition transition, has emerged (Lindsay et al, 2009;Traissac et al, 2015) and it refers to less physical activity in combination with increased consumption of energy-dense food and eating behaviours (Pham, Worsley, Lawrence, & Marshall, 2017;Shaikh et al, 2017). Among the identified properties of the experience of transition (Meleis et al, 2000) awareness is of certain interest.…”

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Adulthood transitions in health and welfare; a literature review

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AimThe aim of the literature review was to describe how adulthood transition is used in health and welfare.DesignA qualitative design with a deductive approach were used.MethodsAs material, 283 articles published in scientific journals, between 2011–August 2013, were selected. The search was conducted August 2013. The data were analysed and sorted in a categorization matrix.ResultsTransition was identified as a process mainly related to the four types previously identified; developmental, situational, health‐illness and organizational transitions. Another one transition was also identified, lifestyle transition.

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Development and evaluation of a Nutrition Transition-FFQ for adolescents in South India

Abstract: The NT-FFQ has good reproducibility and acceptable validity for food intake and eating behaviours. The NT-FFQ can quantify the nutrition transition among Indian adolescents.

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The Evaluation and Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among the Population in Trivandrum, South Kerala, India

The Evaluation and Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among the Population in Trivandrum, South Kerala, India

Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project‐level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Adulthood transitions in health and welfare; a literature review

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