TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of a Novel Single-administration Food Frequency Questionnaire for Assessing Seasonally Varied Dietary Patterns among Women in Rural Nepal
AU - Campbell, Rebecca K.
AU - Talegawkar, Sameera A.
AU - Christian, Parul
AU - Leclerq, Steven C.
AU - Khatry, Subarna K.
AU - Wu, Lee S.F.
AU - Stewart, Christine P.
AU - West, Keith P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by grant No. GH614 (Control of Global Micronutrient Deficiency) between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle (Ellen Piwoz, PhD, Senior Program Officer), and the Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, and was undertaken in collaboration with the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness (Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh), Kathmandu, Nepal. The original vitamin A supplementation trial was carried out under Cooperative Agreement No. DAN 0045-A-5094 between the Office of Nutrition, US Agency for International Development, Washington, and the Johns Hopkins University, with additional assistance from the Sight and Life Global Nutrition Research Institute, Baltimore, MD. The funding agencies had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or the writing of the report.
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PY - 2015/7/4
Y1 - 2015/7/4
N2 - Novel dietary assessment methods are needed to study chronic disease risk in agrarian cultures where food availability is highly seasonal. In 16,320 rural Nepalese women, we tested a novel food frequency questionnaire, administered once, to assess past 7-day intake and usual frequency of intake throughout the year for year-round foods and when in season for seasonal foods. Spearman rank correlations between usual and past 7-day intakes were 0.12–0.85 and weighted kappa statistics, representing chance-corrected agreement, were 0.10–0.80, with better agreement for frequently consumed foods. The questionnaire performed well, but may require refinement for settings of extremely low dietary diversity.
AB - Novel dietary assessment methods are needed to study chronic disease risk in agrarian cultures where food availability is highly seasonal. In 16,320 rural Nepalese women, we tested a novel food frequency questionnaire, administered once, to assess past 7-day intake and usual frequency of intake throughout the year for year-round foods and when in season for seasonal foods. Spearman rank correlations between usual and past 7-day intakes were 0.12–0.85 and weighted kappa statistics, representing chance-corrected agreement, were 0.10–0.80, with better agreement for frequently consumed foods. The questionnaire performed well, but may require refinement for settings of extremely low dietary diversity.
KW - Nepal
KW - diet assessment
KW - food frequency questionnaire
KW - seasonal foods
KW - undernutrition
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U2 - 10.1080/03670244.2014.990635
DO - 10.1080/03670244.2014.990635
M3 - Article
C2 - 25679094
AN - SCOPUS:84930930660
SN - 0367-0244
VL - 54
SP - 314
EP - 327
JO - Ecology of Food and Nutrition
JF - Ecology of Food and Nutrition
IS - 4
ER -