Validation of Simplified Diet History Questionnaire

Takatsuka, Naoyoshi; Kurisu, Yoko; Nagata, Chisato; Owaki, Atsuko; Kawakami, Norito; Shimizu, Hiroyuki

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“…Discussion Our weighted twenty-three-item dietary questionnaire proved successful in estimating mean intakes of energy and most nutrients. In addition, correlation coefficients observed in the present study (mostly between 0?4 and 0?7) were comparable to those observed in other validation studies of dietary questionnaires, which mainly chose diet records as the reference for dietary assessment (14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25) . Because of the method used to develop the short questionnaire, the two sets of nutrient intakes we used in our evaluation study may be considered as dependent on one another.…”

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Performance of a short dietary questionnaire to assess nutrient intake using regression-based weights

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Boutron‐Ruault

Niravong

et al. 2008

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Objectives: To evaluate the performance of a short dietary questionnaire, using weights to estimate nutrient intake. Design: Using dietary data collected in 1993-1995 from a large cohort of French women, stepwise regression analysis was used to identify the food groups that best predicted nutrient intakes, resulting in a short list of twenty-three foods. This list was used to design a twenty-three-item dietary questionnaire. Nutrient intake was estimated from the answers to the twenty-three questions, applying weights to each response. Weights were calculated from the large database as regression coefficients of the nutrient intake against the twenty-three food groups. In [2005][2006] 103 women responded (at a 1-year interval) to both the short questionnaire and a previously validated dietary history questionnaire. Intakes of twenty nutrients and energy estimated from these two questionnaires were compared. Setting: French adult female population. Subjects: For developing the instrument, 73 034 women aged 41-72 years; for testing, 103 women aged 55-80 years in 2005. Results: Mean nutrient intakes generally differed by less than 10 % between the two methods. Correlation coefficients of nutrient intakes ranged from 0?23 for vitamin D to .0?65 for Mg, vitamin B 3 and alcohol. For most nutrients, at least 70 % of subjects fell into the same or an adjacent quintile when classified by either of the two questionnaires. Conclusions: In light of both its strengths and limitations, this short questionnaire could be used in French adult women to obtain some general nutritional information, notably for adjustment purposes when response to an extensive questionnaire cannot be obtained. Keywords Nutrient Dietary questionnaire Evaluation study Epidemiological method PreventionCurrently, the leading causes of death in developed countries are chronic diseases such as cancer, CVD and dementia. Diet appears to play a major role in their aetiology (1)(2)(3) . Therefore, reliable assessment of nutritional intake is needed for epidemiological studies but also for screening of potentially inappropriate diets. Several tools are available, including 24 h recall and FFQ, but they require time for completion and are often difficult to interpret. Other instruments are simpler, but were designed to assess intake only of specific nutrients (4)(5)(6)(7) . We sought to estimate a wide range of nutritional intakes and thus developed an original dietary assessment method based on responses to a twenty-three-item dietary questionnaire. We performed an evaluation study of this method in a sample of 103 French women. We report here its capacity to estimate twenty nutrient and energy intakes, taking as the reference a previously validated dietary history questionnaire. Methods Development of the instrumentSelection of food items that predict nutrient intake In developing the short questionnaire, we concentrated our efforts on dietary intake assessment of five nutrients often known to be in deficit in the French female population: Ca, Fe, M...

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confidence: 90%

Performance of a short dietary questionnaire to assess nutrient intake using regression-based weights

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“…The median correlation coefficients observed in this study were similar to or slightly lower than those in previously developed and validated dietary assessment questionnaires in Japan. [10][11][12] The validity in crude intakes was better than for energy-adjusted intakes both in men and women (Table 1), something hardly ever observed in the previous validation studies. [13][14][15] However, when adjustment was made for area, the difference in crude and energyadjusted intakes almost disappeared.…”

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Validity of the Self-administered Food Frequency Questionnaire Used in the 5-year Follow-Up Survey of the JPHC Study Cohort I: Comparison with Dietary Records for Main Nutrients

Sasaki¹,

Kobayashi²,

Tsugane³

2003

Journal of Epidemiology

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We examined the validity of energy and 16 nutrient intake measurements from a self-administered food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) used in the 5-year follow-up survey of the JPHC study using 28-or 14-day dietary records (DR) as the gold standard. The median (range) correlation coefficients between 16 nutrients measured by FFQ and DR were 0.52 (0.31-0.81) for men and 0.41 (0.22-0.56) for women. The median (range) for energy-adjusted correlation coefficients was 0.40 (0.22-0.82) for men and 0.39 (0.15-0.48) for women. With further adjustment for area, it was 0.41 and 0.35, respectively. The mean percentage of classification into the same categories between the two methods was 33% in men and 30% in women. Only 2% of subjects were classified into the extreme opposite categories. In conclusion, the results suggest that the FFQ can be used in the JPHC Study Cohort I to rank individuals according to the intakes for most of the nutrients examined.J Epidemiol 2003;1 3(Suppl):S51 -S56.Key words: validity, nutrient, food frequency questionnaire, dietary record.The dietary assessment method is an important issue in prospective epidemiological study on diet and chronic diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Considering the long time course of chronic disease development and the mechanistic role of nutrients in diet, the average nutrient intake over one year should be assessed using an appropriate tool. The causative association between nutrient intake and chronic diseases is neither dichotomous (yes or no) nor always linear. The optimal level should be quantitatively explored, so a quantitative assessment of nutrient intake is needed.Although the long-term dietary record (DR), e.g., 365 days, may be one of most accurate methods for estimating nutrient intake over a given year, it is not appropriate when applied to a large population. A semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), which can estimate the usual level of nutrient intake, was developed and validated in the United States and is now a standard tool in nutritional epidemiology.1 We have developed a FFQ for use in the 5-year follow-up survey of the JPHC study, which was based on data obtained from a 3-day DR survey in the same area of the JPHC Study Cohort I.2Here, we examined the validity of energy and 16 nutrient intakes assessed with the FFQ using a 28-or 14-day dietary record (DR). MATERIALS AND METHODSThe study design and subject characteristics have been reported elsewhere in this Supplement.3 The subjects included in the analysis were 102 men and 113 women who completed 28-day DRs in Iwate, Akita, and Okinawa, and 14-day DRs in Okinawa, and answered the FFQ after the completion of their DRs. The survey method using dietary records and the method for computing nutrient intakes from FFQ have been described elsewhere in this Supplement.4.5 We compared the mean intakes and computed Spearman rank correlation coefficients for energy and 15 nutrients, for which food composition tables are available in the published Standard Tables of Food Compos...

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“…The questionnaire used in the study in Hawaii asked more number of foods and more dietary behaviors in detail, and the structure was more complicated than most questionnaires previously developed in Japan. The structure of the questionnaire of the study is more complicated and has more volume of questions compared to the questionnaires of previous studies in Japan [8][9][10][11][12]. Although the results were not satisfactory enough, they were thought to be comparable to those of the self-administered diet assessment methods developed in Western countries18, [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33].…”

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“…7. Those developed in Japan are, however, scarce [8][9][10][11][12]. Moreover, to our knowledge, those for health education with a reasonable validity does not yet exist in Japan.…”

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Self-Administered Diet History Questionnaire Developed for Health Education: A Relative Validation of The Test-Version by Comparison with 3-Day Diet Record in Women

Sasaki¹,

Yanagibori

Amano³

1998

Journal of Epidemiology

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A self-administered diet history questionnaire has been developed for the use in health education in Japan. The relative validity of the test-version was examined using 3-day diet record (DR) as a reference method. Subjects were mildly hypercholesterolemic 47 women aged 38-69 years living in Hikone, Japan. The questionnaire provided close estimation of nutrients compared to the DR (mean of the 3-days), 1-25 % differences between the two methods were observed for total energy and 17 nutrients examined. The differences were in general smaller for macronutrients, 1-3 %, than for micronutrients, 1-25 %. Pearson correlation coefficients between the questionnaire and the DR (mean of the 3-days) ranged from 0.16 for niacin to 0 .60 for saturated fatty acid (mean = 0.41). The energy-adjustment using regression analysis and the correction of attenuation due to error from a limited number of days of DR slightly improved the results. The correlations ranged from 0.19 for niacin to 0.75 for saturated fatty acid (mean = 0.48). Average 37 and 6 % subjects were classified into same quartile and opposite quartile respectively between the two methods. This questionnaire may be useful to assess individual nutrient intake level at least for the subjects examined.

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Validation of Simplified Diet History Questionnaire

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Performance of a short dietary questionnaire to assess nutrient intake using regression-based weights

Performance of a short dietary questionnaire to assess nutrient intake using regression-based weights

Validity of the Self-administered Food Frequency Questionnaire Used in the 5-year Follow-Up Survey of the JPHC Study Cohort I: Comparison with Dietary Records for Main Nutrients

Self-Administered Diet History Questionnaire Developed for Health Education: A Relative Validation of The Test-Version by Comparison with 3-Day Diet Record in Women

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