Dietary assessment tools for developing countries for use in multi-centric, collaborative protocols

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (6a) ◽  
pp. 955-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel W Solomons ◽  
Roxana Valdés-Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Nutritional Anthropology ◽  
Measurement Tools

AbstractIn recent years, increasing interest in the format of multi-centric studies among different populations in developing nations has evolved in the field of health surveys and epidemiology. Dietary intake data are most often part of these cross-cultural and cross-national collaborative efforts. Various questions have been raised about the appropriate endeavours for dietetics and nutritional sciences in developing societies, the instruments available for application, and the pitfalls and caveats in their use. An important consideration is that studies be hypothesis-driven and not mere ‘fishing expeditions’ of unfocused data gathering. All known dietary intake measurement tools are within the purview of developing country research, but they often must be adapted individually and differentially to suit a given population. In a multi-centric context, this is complicated. The watchword should be collecting comparable information across sites, not using identical approaches. Choice of dietary intake measurement tools must be honed to the hypotheses and assumptions, on the one hand, and the exigencies and pitfalls of working in the developing country milieu, in which linguistics, seasonality, migration, uncommonness of food systems and ethical considerations present barriers and caveats, on the other. Within the hypotheses, the assumptions regarding the penetration of the measured exposures must be borne in mind. Multi-centre studies in developing countries have relevance and importance in the context of food security, diet and disease, eating behaviour and satiety regulation, and nutritional anthropology.

scholarly journals Nutritional Assessment in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)—Development of the Groningen IBD Nutritional Questionnaires (GINQ)

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Peters ◽  
Behrooz Z Alizadeh ◽  
Jeanne HM de Vries ◽  
Gerard Dijkstra ◽  
Marjo JE Campmans-Kuijpers
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Bowel Disease ◽  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Bowel Disease ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Nutritional Assessment ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Dietary Assessment Methods ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel

Diet plays a key role in the complex etiology and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Most existing nutritional assessment tools neglect intake of important foods consumed or omitted specifically by IBD patients or incorporate non-Western dietary habits, making the development of appropriate dietary guidelines for (Western) IBD patients difficult. Hence, we developed a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), the Groningen IBD Nutritional Questionnaires (GINQ-FFQ); suitable to assess dietary intake in IBD patients. To develop the GINQ-FFQ, multiple steps were taken, including: identification of IBD specific foods, a literature search, and evaluation of current dietary assessment methods. Expert views were collected and in collaboration with Wageningen University, division of Human Nutrition and Health, this semi-quantitative FFQ was developed using standard methods to obtain a valid questionnaire. Next, the GINQ-FFQ was digitized into a secure web-based environment which also embeds additional nutritional and IBD related questions. The GINQ-FFQ is an online self-administered FFQ evaluating dietary intake, taking the previous month as a reference period. It consists of 121 questions on 218 food items. This paper describes the design process of the GINQ-FFQ which assesses dietary intake especially (but not exclusively) in IBD patients. Validation of the GINQ-FFQ is needed and planned in the near future.

scholarly journals P794 Nutritional assessment in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): development of the Groningen IBD Nutritional Questionnaires (GINQ)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S624-S625
Author(s):  
V Peters ◽  
B Alizadeh ◽  
J de Vries ◽  
G Dijkstra ◽  
M Campmans-Kuijpers
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Bowel Disease ◽  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Bowel Disease ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Nutritional Assessment ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Dietary Intakes ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel

Abstract Background Diet plays a key role in the complex aetiology and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Most existing nutritional assessment tools neglect intakes of important foods consumed or omitted specifically by IBD patients or incorporate non-Western dietary habits, making development of appropriate dietary guidelines for (Western) IBD patients difficult. Hence, we developed a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), the Groningen IBD Nutritional Questionnaires (GINQ-FFQ); suitable to assess dietary intake in IBD patients. Methods To develop the GINQ-FFQ multiple steps (Figure 1) were taken; identification of IBD specific foods, literature search and evaluation of current dietary assessment methods. Expert views were collected and in collaboration with Wageningen University, division of Human Nutrition and Health, this semi-quantitative FFQ was developed using standard methods to obtain a validate questionnaire. Next, the GINQ-FFQ was digitalised into a secure web-based environment which also embeds additional nutritional and IBD-related questions. Results The GINQ-FFQ is an online self-administered FFQ evaluating dietary intake over the past month as a proxy of habitual intake of the previous six months. The GINQ-FFQ consists of 121 questions on 218 food items. It takes about 45 min to fill out the GINQ-FFQ. Conclusion This paper describes the design process of the GINQ-FFQ which is newly developed to assess dietary intakes especially (but not exclusively) in IBD patients.

scholarly journals Applying a meal coding system to 16-d weighed dietary record data in the Japanese context: towards the development of simple meal-based dietary assessment tools

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kentaro Murakami ◽  
M. Barbara E. Livingstone ◽  
Satoshi Sasaki ◽  
Naoko Hirota ◽  
Akiko Notsu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Food Group ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Food Composition ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Nutrient Intakes ◽  
Dietary Record ◽  
Eating Occasions

AbstractData on the combination of foods consumed simultaneously at specific eating occasions are scarce, primarily due to a lack of assessment tools. We applied a recently developed meal coding system to multiple-day dietary intake data for assessing its ability to estimate food and nutrient intakes and characterise meal-based dietary patterns in the Japanese context. A total of 242 Japanese adults completed sixteen non-consecutive-day weighed dietary records, including 14 734 eating occasions (3788 breakfasts, 3823 lunches, 3856 dinners and 3267 snacks). Common food group combinations were identified by meal type to identify a range of generic meals. Dietary intake was calculated on the basis of not only the standard food composition database but also the substituted generic meal database. In total, eighty generic meals (twenty-three breakfasts, twenty-one lunches, twenty-four dinners and twelve snacks) were identified. The Spearman correlation coefficients between food group intakes calculated based on the standard food composition database and the substituted generic meal database ranged from 0·26 to 0·85 (median 0·69). The corresponding correlations for nutrient intakes ranged from 0·17 to 0·82 (median 0·61). A total of eleven meal patterns were established using principal components analysis, and these accounted for 39·1 % of total meal variance. Considerable variation in patterns was seen in meal type inclusion and choice of staple foods (bread, rice and noodles) and drinks, and also in meal constituents. In conclusion, this study demonstrated the usefulness of a meal coding system for assessing habitual diet, providing a scientific basis towards the development of simple meal-based dietary assessment tools.

scholarly journals Evaluation of New Technology-Based Tools for Dietary Intake Assessment—An ILSI Europe Dietary Intake and Exposure Task Force Evaluation

Nutrients ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Eldridge ◽  
Carmen Piernas ◽  
Anne-Kathrin Illner ◽  
Michael Gibney ◽  
Mirjana Gurinović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Task Force ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Dietary Intakes ◽  
Food Composition Tables ◽  
General Quality

Background: New technology-based dietary assessment tools, including Web-based programs, mobile applications, and wearable devices, may improve accuracy and reduce costs of dietary data collection and processing. The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Europe Dietary Intake and Exposure Task Force launched this project to evaluate new tools in order to recommend general quality standards for future applications. Methods: A comprehensive literature search identified technology-based dietary assessment tools, including those published in English from 01/2011 to 09/2017, and providing details on tool features, functions and uses. Each of the 43 tools identified (33 for research and 10 designed for consumer use) was rated on 25 attributes. Results: Most of the tools identified (79%) relied on self-reported dietary intakes. Most (91%) used text entry and 33% used digital images to help identify foods. Only 65% had integrated databases for estimating energy or nutrients. Fewer than 50% contained any features of customization and about half generated automatic reports. Most tools reported on usability or reported validity compared with another assessment method (77%). A set of Best Practice Guidelines was developed for reporting dietary assessment tools using new technology. Conclusions: Dietary assessment methods that utilize technology offer many advantages for research and are often preferable to consumers over more traditional methods. In order to meet general quality standards, new technology tools require detailed publications describing tool development, food identification and quantification, customization, outputs, food composition tables used, and usability/validity testing.

scholarly journals Nutritional Assessment of Childhood Cancer Survivors (the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study-Nutrition): Protocol for a Multicenter Observational Study

10.2196/14427 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. e14427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiën Naomi Belle ◽  
Maja Beck Popovic ◽  
Marc Ansari ◽  
Maria Otth ◽  
Claudia Elisabeth Kuehni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Food Frequency Questionnaire ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivors ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Food Frequency ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

Background Childhood cancer survivors are at high risk of developing adverse late health effects. Poor nutritional intake may contribute to this risk, but information about dietary intake is limited. Objective This study will assess childhood cancer survivors’ dietary intake and compare two dietary assessment tools: a self-reported food frequency questionnaire, and dietary measurements from urine spot samples. Methods In a substudy of the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (SCCSS), SCCSS-Nutrition, we assessed childhood cancer survivors’ dietary intake via a validated food frequency questionnaire. We sent a urine spot collection kit to a subset of 212 childhood cancer survivors from the French-speaking region of Switzerland to analyze urinary sodium, potassium, urea, urate, creatinine, and phosphate content. We will compare the food frequency questionnaire results with the urine spot analyses to quantify childhood cancer survivors’ intake of various nutrients. We collected data between March 2016 and March 2018. Results We contacted 1599 childhood cancer survivors, of whom 919 (57.47%) returned a food frequency questionnaire. We excluded 11 childhood cancer survivors who were pregnant or were breastfeeding, 35 with missing dietary data, and 71 who had unreliable food frequency questionnaire data, resulting in 802 childhood cancer survivors available for food frequency questionnaire analyses. To a subset of 212 childhood cancer survivors in French-speaking Switzerland we sent a urine spot collection kit, and 111 (52.4%) returned a urine sample. We expect to have the results from analyses of these samples in mid-2019. Conclusions The SCCSS-Nutrition study has collected in-depth dietary data that will allow us to assess dietary intake and quality and compare two dietary assessment tools. This study will contribute to the knowledge of nutrition among childhood cancer survivors and is a step toward surveillance guidelines and targeted nutritional recommendations for childhood cancer survivors in Switzerland. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03297034; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03297034 International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/14427

scholarly journals Nutritional assessment in childhood cancer survivors: SCCSS-Nutrition study protocol (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiën Naomi Belle ◽  
Maja Beck Popovic ◽  
Marc Ansari ◽  
Maria Otth ◽  
Claudia Elisabeth Kuehni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivors ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Nutrition Study ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Dietary Data

BACKGROUND Childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) are at high risk of developing adverse late health effects. Poor nutritional intake may contribute to this risk, but information about dietary intake is limited. OBJECTIVE This study will assess dietary intake of CCSs and compare two dietary assessment tools: a self-reported food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), and dietary measurements from urine spot samples. METHODS In the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, we assessed dietary intake of CCSs via a validated FFQ. To a subset of CCSs from the French-speaking region of Switzerland, we sent a urine spot collection kit to analyse urinary sodium, potassium, urea, urate, creatinine, and phosphate content. We will compare the FFQ with the urine spot analyses to quantify the intake of different nutrients in CCSs. Data collection took place between March 2016 and March 2018. RESULTS We contacted 1599 CCSs of whom 919 (57%) returned an FFQ. We excluded 11 CCSs who were pregnant or were breastfeeding, 35 CCSs with missing dietary data, and 71 CCSs who had unreliable FFQ data, resulting in 802 CCSs available for FFQ analyses. To a subset of 197 CCSs in French-speaking Switzerland we sent a urine spot collection kit, and 111 (56%) returned a urine sample. We expect to have the results from analyses of these samples in mid-2019. CONCLUSIONS The SCCSS-Nutrition study has collected in-depth dietary data that will allow us to assess dietary intake and quality and compare two dietary assessment tools. This study will contribute to the current knowledge of nutrition among CCSs and is a step towards surveillance guidelines and targeted nutritional recommendations for CCSs in Switzerland. CLINICALTRIAL ClinicalTrials.gov identifier SCCSS: NCT03297034

scholarly journals Characteristics of smartphone-based dietary assessment tools: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M König ◽  
Miranda Van Emmenis ◽  
Johanna Nurmi ◽  
Katerina Kassavou ◽  
Stephen Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Study Protocols

Smartphones have become popular in assessing eating behaviour in real-life and real-time. This systematic review provides a comprehensive overview of smartphone-based dietary assessment tools, focusing on how dietary data is assessed and its completeness ensured. Seven databases from behavioural, social and computer science were searched in March 2020. All observational, experimental or intervention studies and study protocols using a smartphone-based assessment tool for dietary intake were included if they reported data collected by adults and were published in English. Out of 21,722 records initially screened, 117 publications using 129 tools were included. Five core assessment features were identified: photo-based assessment (48.8% of tools), assessed serving/ portion sizes (48.8%), free-text descriptions of food intake (42.6%), food databases (30.2%), classification systems (27.9%). On average, a tool used two features. The majority of studies did not implement any features to improve completeness of the records. This review provides a comprehensive overview and classification scheme of smartphone-based dietary assessment tools to help researchers identify suitable assessment tools for their studies. Future research needs to address the potential impact of specific dietary assessment methods on data quality and participants’ willingness to record to ultimately improve the quality of smartphone-based dietary assessment for health research.

scholarly journals Accuracy of Parental Reporting of Preschoolers’ Dietary Intake Using an Online Self-Administered 24-h Recall

Nutrients ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Wallace ◽  
Sharon Kirkpatrick ◽  
Gerarda Darlington ◽  
Jess Haines
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Portion Size ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Plate Waste ◽  
Daycare Centre ◽  
Parental Reports ◽  
Eating Occasions

Parents are typically relied upon to report young children’s dietary intake. However, there has been limited research assessing the accuracy of such reports captured using novel dietary assessment tools. The purpose of the current study was to assess the validity of the web-based Automated Self-Administered 24-h Dietary Assessment Tool (ASA24-Canada) for capturing dietary intake among children aged two-five years (n = 40), using parental proxy reporting. The study was conducted in a daycare setting, allowing for standardization of foods and drinks offered and direct observation of intake. Parental-reported intake was compared to true intake for lunch and dinner, as well as an afternoon snack, on a single day. Each eating occasion, including plate waste, was unobtrusively documented. Parents were not present for lunch or the afternoon snack, but joined their children at the daycare centre for the dinner meal. The following day, parents reported their children’s intake from the previous 24-h period using ASA24-Canada. For the eating occasions assessed, parents reported exact or close matches for 79.2% (82.3% for lunch, 81.2% for the snack, and 77.4% for dinner) of the foods and beverages truly consumed by children. Estimates of intake for energy and macronutrients examined (carbohydrates, fat, and protein) based on parental reports were higher than those based on true (observed) intake. Our findings suggest that parents are able to report what their preschool children eat and drink relatively accurately. However, the accuracy of portion size estimates is low. Strategies to enhance portion size reporting are needed to improve parental proxy reporting.

Cultural Relevance of a Fruit and Vegetable Food Frequency Questionnaire

2005 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Paisley ◽  
Marlene Greenberg ◽  
Jess Haines
Keyword(s):  
Food Frequency Questionnaire ◽  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Fruit And Vegetable ◽  
Food Frequency ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Vegetable Food ◽  
Nutrition Research

Purpose: Canada’s multicultural population poses challenges for culturally competent nutrition research and practice. In this qualitative study, the cultural relevance of a widely used semiquantitative fruit and vegetable food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was examined among convenience samples of adults from Toronto’s Cantonese-, Mandarin-, Portuguese-, and Vietnamesespeaking communities. Methods: Eighty-nine participants were recruited through community-based organizations, programs, and advertisements to participate in semi-structured interviews moderated in their native language. Data from the interviews were translated into English and transcribed for analysis using the constant comparative approach. Results: Four main themes emerged from the analysis: the cultural relevance of the foods listed on the FFQ, words with multiple meanings, the need for culturally appropriate portionsize prompts, and the telephone survey as a Western concept. Conclusions: This research highlights the importance of investing resources to develop culturally relevant dietary assessment tools that ensure dietary assessment accuracy and, more important, reduce ethnocentric biases in food and nutrition research and practice. The transferability of findings must be established through further research.

Maximizing Utility vis-à-vis Developing Countries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Blodgett Bermeo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Outcomes

This chapter develops a formal model of targeted development. It starts from the assumption that governments in industrialized states seek to maximize their own utility in interactions with developing countries. Development concerns compete with other policy goals for scarce government resources. The level of development resources an industrialized country government targets to a particular developing country depends on the weight the government places on development in that country as well as the efficiency of the country in turning resources into development outcomes that the industrialized state values. One of the key insights of the model is that, as governments work to maximize the utility gained per dollar (or euro, yen, etc.) spent, development motives will influence policy in multiple issue areas. The chapter also draws out implications of the theory for each of the issue areas examined in the empirical chapters.

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