Title
Dietary assessment toolkits: An overview
Date Issued
01 March 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Dao M.C.
Subar A.F.
Cade J.E.
Burrows T.
Golley R.K.
Forouhi N.G.
Pearce M.
Holmes B.A.
Universidad de Leeds
Publisher(s)
Cambridge University Press
Abstract
Objective A wide variety of methods are available to assess dietary intake, each one with different strengths and weaknesses. Researchers face multiple challenges when diet and nutrition need to be accurately assessed, particularly in the selection of the most appropriate dietary assessment method for their study. The goal of the current collaborative work is to present a collection of available resources for dietary assessment implementation.Design/Setting/Participants As a follow-up to the 9th International Conference on Diet and Physical Activity Methods held in 2015, developers of dietary assessment toolkits agreed to collaborate in the preparation of the present paper, which provides an overview of each toolkit. The toolkits presented include: the Diet, Anthropometry and Physical Activity Measurement Toolkit (DAPA; UK); the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Dietary Assessment Primer (USA); the Nutritools website (UK); the Australasian Child and Adolescent Obesity Research Network (ACAORN) method selector (Australia); and the Danone Dietary Assessment Toolkit (DanoneDAT; France). An at-a-glance summary of features and comparison of the toolkits is provided.Results The present review contains general background on dietary assessment, along with a summary of each of the included toolkits, a feature comparison table and direct links to each toolkit, all of which are freely available online.Conclusions This overview of dietary assessment toolkits provides comprehensive information to aid users in the selection and implementation of the most appropriate dietary assessment method, or combination of methods, with the goal of collecting the highest-quality dietary data possible.
Start page
404
End page
418
Volume
22
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Nutrición, Dietética
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85056606857
PubMed ID
Source
Public Health Nutrition
ISSN of the container
1368-9800
Sponsor(s)
Medical Research Council G1100235, MC_UU_12015/3, MC_UU_12015/5, MR/L02019X/1
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