Reproducibility and Validity of the Food Frequency Questionnaire in a Rural Block of Haryana, India


Authors

  • Umesh Kapil Department of Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110 029, India
  • Preeti Singh Department of Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110 029, India
  • Priyali Pathak Department of Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110 029, India
  • Ritu Pradhan Department of Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110 029, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3923/pjn.2004.35.37

Keywords:

Dietary intake, food frequency method, pulses, fruits

Abstract

The present study was conducted amongst 212 subjects to assess the reproducibility and validity of the food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) methodology in a rural area of India. The findings of the present study revealed that FFQ for all the food groups is reproducible. A good validity was found between the two methodologies for all the food groups except for pulses.

Downloads

Published

15.12.2003

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2004)

Section

Research Article

License

Copyright (c) 2004 Asian Network for Scientific Information

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

How to Cite

Kapil, U., Singh, P., Pathak, P., & Pradhan, R. (2003). Reproducibility and Validity of the Food Frequency Questionnaire in a Rural Block of Haryana, India. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition, 3(1), 35-37. https://doi.org/10.3923/pjn.2004.35.37