Title
A systematic review of reviews identifying UK validated dietary assessment tools for inclusion on an interactive guided website for researchers: www.nutritools.org
Date Issued
27 April 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Hooson J.
Hutchinson J.
Hancock N.
Greathead K.
Knowles B.
Vargas-Garcia E.
Gibson L.E.
Bush L.A.
Margetts B.
Robinson S.
Ness A.
Alwan N.A.
Wark P.A.
Roe M.
Finglas P.
Steer T.
Page P.
Johnson L.
Roberts K.
Amoutzopoulos B.
Burley V.J.
Greenwood D.C.
Cade J.E.
Instituto Quadram
Publisher(s)
Taylor and Francis Inc.
Abstract
Background: Health researchers may struggle to choose suitable validated dietary assessment tools (DATs) for their target population. The aim of this review was to identify and collate information on validated UK DATs and validation studies for inclusion on a website to support researchers to choose appropriate DATs. Design: A systematic review of reviews of DATs was undertaken. DATs validated in UK populations were extracted from the studies identified. A searchable website was designed to display these data. Additionally, mean differences and limits of agreement between test and comparison methods were summarized by a method, weighting by sample size. Results: Over 900 validation results covering 5 life stages, 18 nutrients, 6 dietary assessment methods, and 9 validation method types were extracted from 63 validated DATs which were identified from 68 reviews. These were incorporated into www.nutritools.org. Limits of agreement were determined for about half of validations. Thirty four DATs were FFQs. Only 17 DATs were validated against biomarkers, and only 19 DATs were validated in infant/children/adolescents. Conclusions: The interactive www.nutritools.org website holds extensive validation data identified from this review and can be used to guide researchers to critically compare and choose a suitable DAT for their research question, leading to improvement of nutritional epidemiology research.
Start page
1265
End page
1289
Volume
60
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nutrición, Dietética
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85082881406
PubMed ID
Source
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
ISSN of the container
1040-8398
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the UK Medical Research Council [Grant number MR/L02019X/1]. The members of the DIET@NET consortium* are Dr Nisreen A. Alwan; Prof Janet E. Cade; Paul Finglas; Prof Tim Key; Prof Barrie Margetts; Dr Darren Greenwood; Prof Andy Ness; Prof Sian Robinson; Dr Toni Steer; Polly Page; Prof Petra A. Wark. The members of the DIET@NET project team have included Prof Janet E. Cade; Dr Marisol Warthon-Medina; Katherine Greathead; Bethany Knowles; Neil Hancock; Victoria Burley; Jozef Hooson, Dr Jayne Hutchinson, Dr Elisa Vargas-Garcia, Linda A. Bush, and Lauren E. Gibson. The members of the Tool Selection Working Group were Dr Victoria J. Burley; Dr Darren C. Greenwood; Prof Sian Robinson; Mark Roe; Dr Toni Steer; and Prof Petra A. Wark. The members of the Access Working Group are Prof Andy Ness; Polly Page; Paul Finglas; and Prof Tim Key.
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