Open AccessAdaptation of locally available portion sizes for food frequency questionnaires in nutritional epidemiological studies: How much difference does it make?
Author(s) -
Neha Gupta,
Sonika Verma,
Abhishek Singh,
Nikhil Tandon,
Seema Puri,
Narendra K. Arora
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.183596
Subject(s) - portion size , food frequency questionnaire , environmental health , medicine , demography , geography , statistics , food science , mathematics , biology , sociology
There is need for employing strategies to minimize measurement errors while administering semi-quantitative FFQ. The current study was planned to adapt and standardize locally available portion sizes for semi-quantitative FFQ to improve its validity and document the process of standardization of portion sizes.