Loading…

Development of Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) for the assessment of dietary intake among overweight and obese Saudi young children

Background Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) is an effective tool for nutritional status assessment. This study had two objectives: (1) to develop a FFQ for habitual dietary intake assessment of children and adolescents with overweight or obesity and (2) to evaluate the reproducibility of this FFQ....

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nutrire : revista de Sociedade Brasileira de Alimentação e Nutrição = journal of the Brazilian Society of Food and Nutrition 2018-12, Vol.43 (1), Article 29
Main Authors: Almajwal, Ali, AL-zahrani, Saeed, Abulmeaty, Mahmoud, Alam, Iftikhar, Razzak, Suhail, Alqahtani, Aayed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Background Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) is an effective tool for nutritional status assessment. This study had two objectives: (1) to develop a FFQ for habitual dietary intake assessment of children and adolescents with overweight or obesity and (2) to evaluate the reproducibility of this FFQ. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Obesity Clinics at King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A final sample of 236 children and adolescents (115/121: M/F; age 6–17 years) was used after they provided a written consent. Their anthropometrics were measured and they completed a  a 3-day food record (3DFR) questionnaire. We constructed a comprehensive food list based on the most commonly reported food items and portion size reported in 3DFR. This food list was converted to FFQ format using the typically reported portions. FFQ was reduced and developed into final form. The newly developed 74-item FFQ was administered twice over a 4-week period. Reproducibility was explored by comparing the nutrients and food intakes of FFQ1 and FFQ2. All statistical analyses were done on SPSS (version 18.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Results The newly developed FFQ had 74 food items distributed in 7 food groups. A satisfactory reproducibility of FFQ was achieved. The average correlation coefficients of nutrients and food groups were 0.46 and 0.49, respectively. The average % agreement of nutrients and food groups were 70.1 and 70.9%, respectively. Conclusion The newly developed FFQ had 74 food items broadly categorized in 7 food groups and yielded satisfactory reproducibility. We conclude the newly developed FFQ may be a useful tool for further research for dietary assessment of children and adolescents with overweight and obesity in Saudi Arabia.
ISSN:2316-7874
1519-8928
2316-7874
DOI:10.1186/s41110-018-0088-8