Development of a 20-item food frequency questionnaire to assess a 'prudent' dietary pattern among young women in Southampton
Crozier, S.R., Inskip, H.M., Barker, M.E., Lawrence, W.T., Cooper, C. and Robinson, S.M. (2010) Development of a 20-item food frequency questionnaire to assess a 'prudent' dietary pattern among young women in Southampton. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 64, (1), 99-104. (doi:10.1038/ejcn.2009.114). (PMID:19756032).
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Objective: to develop a short food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) that can be used among young women in Southampton to assess compliance with a prudent dietary pattern characterized by high consumption of wholemeal bread, fruit and vegetables, and low consumption of sugar, white bread, and red and processed meat.
Methods: diet was assessed using a 100-item interviewer-administered FFQ in 6129 non-pregnant women aged 20–34 years. In total, 94 of these women were re-interviewed 2 years later using the same FFQ. Subsequently, diet was assessed in 378 women attending SureStart Children's Centres in the Nutrition and Well-being Study (NWS) using a 20-item FFQ. The 20 foods included were those that characterized the prudent dietary pattern.
Results: the 20-item prudent diet score was highly correlated with the full 100-item score (r=0.94) in the Southampton Women's Survey (SWS). Both scores were correlated with red blood cell folate (r=0.28 for the 100-item score and r=0.25 for the 20-item score). Among the women re-interviewed after 2 years, the change in prudent diet score was correlated with change in red cell folate for both the 20-item (rS=0.31) and 100-item scores (rS=0.32). In the NWS a strong association between the 20-item prudent diet score and educational attainment (r=0.41) was observed, similar to that seen in the SWS (r=0.47).
Conclusions: the prudent diet pattern describes a robust axis of variation in diet. A 20-item FFQ based on the foods that characterize the prudent diet pattern has clear advantages in terms of time and resources, and is a helpful tool to characterize the diets of young women in Southampton
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSNs: | 0954-3007 (print) |
| Keywords: | food frequency questionnaire, principal component analysis |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Developmental Origins of Health and Disease |
| Item ID: | 72050 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2012 23:14 |
| Contributors: | Crozier, S.R. (Author) Inskip, H.M. (Author) Barker, M.E. (Author) Lawrence, W.T. (Author) Cooper, C. (Author) Robinson, S.M. (Author) |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | src@mrc.soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/72050 |
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