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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August 2008
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., 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), .
(doi:10.1017/S1368980008003388).
Abstract
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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