Meal Distribution, Relative Validity and Reproducibility of a Meal-based Food Frequency Questionnaire in Taiwan

• Published in: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 766 - 776
• Main Authors: Lyu, Li-Ching, Lin, Chi-Fen, Chang, Fang-Hsin, Chen, Heng-Fei, Lo, Chiao-Chen, Ho, Hong-Fa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australia HEC Press 01.12.2007
• Subjects: Adult; Carbohydrates; Diet; Diet Records; Diet Surveys; Dietary Carbohydrates - administration & dosage; Dietary Fats - administration & dosage; Dietary Proteins - administration & dosage; Energy; Energy Intake - physiology; Epidemiology; Feeding Behavior; Female; Food; Food Preferences; Humans; Male; Mental Recall; Micronutrients - administration & dosage; Middle Aged; Nutrition Assessment; Nutrition research; Proteins; Public health; Questionnaires; Reproducibility; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; Taiwan; Validity; Vitamins; Womens health; Taiwan; 餐次分佈; relative validity; 相對效度; 分餐次之中式食物頻率問卷; reproducibility; Taiwan; 臺灣; meal-based food frequency questionnaire; 信度; meal distribution

Food frequency questionnaire is an important assessment tool for public health nutrition research. We describe the development history and conducted the validity and reproducibility studies for a meal-based Chinese food frequency questionnaire (Chinese FFQ) by five meal sequences. A total of 51 subj...