Adaptation and validation of an FFQ for 6-10-year-old children.
Public Health Nutr
; 14(5): 826-34, 2011 May.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To adapt and test the relative validity of an instrument measuring the usual food intake of 6-10-year-old children.DESIGN:
An FFQ encompassing the preceding 6 months was adapted and compared with the average of three 24 h dietary recalls.SETTING:
Private and public schools in Porto Alegre, capital city of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, with 1·5 million inhabitants.SUBJECTS:
Children aged 6-10 years attending grades 1-4 in private and public schools in Porto Alegre.RESULTS:
Ninety-one children were studied. The FFQ overestimated all nutrients. Correlations with the values obtained by 24 h dietary recalls were mostly above 0·50. The deattenuated correlations increased for all nutrients. The κ coefficients for the adjusted nutrients varied from 0·12 (weak) to 0·34 (reasonable). Graphically, the FFQ was shown to underestimate some of the parameters and to overestimate others, with a wide CI for all nutrients.CONCLUSIONS:
The FFQ does not have the required relative validity to classify the intake levels of schoolchildren, and further investigation is required to understand the sources of error.
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MEDLINE
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2011
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Article