Can the EPIC food-frequency questionnaire be used in adolescent populations?
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Public Health Nutrition
- Vol. 5 (6), 783-789
- https://doi.org/10.1079/phn2002344
Abstract
Objective: : To assess the validity of the food-frequency questionnaire used in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC FFQ) for estimating nutrient intake in an adolescent population.Design: : Sixty-seven schoolchildren (mean age: 12.3±0.3 years) were recruited to complete a 7-day weighed dietary record (7-day WDR), the EPIC FFQ and supply one 24-hour urine collection.Setting: : Harris Academy in Dundee (UK).Results: : Fifty subjects completed both dietary assessment methods. Thirteen of these were classified as underreporters with energy intake/basal metabolic rater = 0.45 (Pr = 0.78 (P<0.001), respectively. The median proportion of subjects that appeared in the same and opposite third of intake was found to be 45.9% and 10.8%, respectively.Conclusions: : The EPIC FFQ seems adequate to correctly classify low, medium and high consumers and might therefore be used to identify adolescent population groups at risk or for differences between populations. However, agreement between the EPIC FFQ and the 7-day WDR was very poor on both a group and an individual basis, and demonstrates that the EPIC FFQ is not an appropriate method for estimating absolute intakes in this age group.Keywords
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