Title
Development and validation of a food frequency questionnaire to estimate intake among children and adolescents in Urban Peru
Date Issued
14 October 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
MDPI AG
Abstract
Tools to assess intake among children in Latin America are limited. We developed and assessed the reproducibility and validity of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) administered to children, adolescents, and their caregivers in Lima, Peru. We conducted 24-h diet recalls (DRs) and focus groups to develop a locally-tailored FFQ prototype for children aged 0–14 years. To validate the FFQ, we administered two FFQs and three DRs to children and/or their caregivers (N = 120) over six months. We examined FFQ reproducibility by quartile agreement and Pearson correlation coefficients, and validity by quartile agreement and correlation with DRs. For reproducibility, quartile agreement ranged from 60–77% with correlations highest for vitamins A and C (0.31). Age-adjusted correlations for the mean DR and the second-administered FFQ were highest in the 0–7 age group, in which the majority of caregivers completed the FFQ on behalf of the child (total fat; 0.67) and in the 8–14 age group, in which both the child and caregiver completed the FFQ together (calcium, niacin; 0.54); correlations were <0.10 for most nutrients in the 8–14 age group in which the caregiver completed the FFQ on the child’s behalf. The FFQ was reproducible and the first developed and validated to assess various nutrients in children and adolescents in Peru.
Volume
9
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Pediatría Estadísticas, Probabilidad Nutrición, Dietética
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85032870484
PubMed ID
Source
Nutrients
ISSN of the container
20726643
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Francis Family Foundation, Parker B. Francis Family Fellowship in Pulmonary Research (to MFF), a gift from the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (to MFF), and the US National Institutes of Health (grant number U19 AI076217 to MBM). We acknowledge the staff at health centers of the Peruvian Ministry of Health for their collaboration on the study. We are grateful for assistance from the Center for Clinical Investigation Nutrition Core at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, including Leigh Keating and Karen Yee, for obtaining the nutritional composition data from NDSR for items on the FFQ.
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