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What do babies eat: evaluation of a food frequency questionnaire to assess the diets of infants aged twelve months.

What do babies eat: evaluation of a food frequency questionnaire to assess the diets of infants aged twelve months.
What do babies eat: evaluation of a food frequency questionnaire to assess the diets of infants aged twelve months.
Objective: to evaluate the relative validity of an FFQ for assessing nutrient intakes in 12-month-old infants. Design and setting: the FFQ was developed to assess the diets of infants born to women in the Southampton Women’s Survey (SWS), a population-based survey of young women and their offspring. The energy and nutrient intakes obtained from an interviewer-administered FFQ were compared with those obtained from 4 d weighed diaries (WD). Subjects and methods: a sub-sample of fifty infants (aged 1 year) from the SWS had their diets assessed by both methods. The FFQ recorded the frequencies and amounts of foods and drinks consumed by the infants over the previous 28 d; milk consumption was recorded separately. The WD recorded the weights of all foods and drinks consumed by the infants on 4 d following the FFQ completion. Results: the Spearman rank correlation coefficients for intakes of energy, macronutrients and eighteen micronutrients, determined by the two methods, ranged from r50?25 to 0?66. Bland–Altman statistics showed that mean differences between methods were in the range 15% to 160% except for vitamin D (1106 %). Differences in micronutrient intake were partly explained by changes in patterns of milk consumption between the two assessments. Conclusion: although there were differences in absolute energy and nutrient intakes between methods, there was reasonable agreement in the ranking of intakes. The FFQ is a useful tool for assessing energy and nutrient intakes of healthy infants aged around 12 months
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Marriott, Lynne D.
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Inskip, Hazel M.
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Borland, Sharon E.
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Godfrey, Keith M.
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Law, Catherine M.
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Robinson, Sian M.
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Marriott, Lynne D.
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Borland, Sharon E.
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Godfrey, Keith M.
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Law, Catherine M.
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Robinson, Sian M.
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Marriott, Lynne D., Inskip, Hazel M., Borland, Sharon E., Godfrey, Keith M., Law, Catherine M. and Robinson, Sian M. (2008) What do babies eat: evaluation of a food frequency questionnaire to assess the diets of infants aged twelve months. Public Health Nutrition, 12 (7), 967-972. (doi:10.1017/S1368980008003388).

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Objective: to evaluate the relative validity of an FFQ for assessing nutrient intakes in 12-month-old infants. Design and setting: the FFQ was developed to assess the diets of infants born to women in the Southampton Women’s Survey (SWS), a population-based survey of young women and their offspring. The energy and nutrient intakes obtained from an interviewer-administered FFQ were compared with those obtained from 4 d weighed diaries (WD). Subjects and methods: a sub-sample of fifty infants (aged 1 year) from the SWS had their diets assessed by both methods. The FFQ recorded the frequencies and amounts of foods and drinks consumed by the infants over the previous 28 d; milk consumption was recorded separately. The WD recorded the weights of all foods and drinks consumed by the infants on 4 d following the FFQ completion. Results: the Spearman rank correlation coefficients for intakes of energy, macronutrients and eighteen micronutrients, determined by the two methods, ranged from r50?25 to 0?66. Bland–Altman statistics showed that mean differences between methods were in the range 15% to 160% except for vitamin D (1106 %). Differences in micronutrient intake were partly explained by changes in patterns of milk consumption between the two assessments. Conclusion: although there were differences in absolute energy and nutrient intakes between methods, there was reasonable agreement in the ranking of intakes. The FFQ is a useful tool for assessing energy and nutrient intakes of healthy infants aged around 12 months

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Published date: August 2008

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Local EPrints ID: 68832
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/68832
ISSN: 1368-9800
PURE UUID: f73b1511-1412-4f04-ac1c-477a1bd76e40
ORCID for Hazel M. Inskip: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8897-1749
ORCID for Keith M. Godfrey: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4643-0618
ORCID for Sian M. Robinson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1766-7269

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Date deposited: 06 Oct 2009
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:40

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Author: Lynne D. Marriott
Author: Hazel M. Inskip ORCID iD
Author: Sharon E. Borland
Author: Catherine M. Law
Author: Sian M. Robinson ORCID iD

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