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Salud Pública de México
Print version ISSN 0036-3634
Abstract
DENOVA-GUTIERREZ, Edgar et al. Validity of a food frequency questionnaire to assess food intake in Mexican adolescent and adult population. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2016, vol.58, n.6, pp.617-628. ISSN 0036-3634. https://doi.org/10.21149/spm.v58i6.7862.
Objective:
To assess the validity of a 140-item semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire (SFFQ), in Mexican adolescents and adults.
Materials and methods:
Dietary intakes using a SFFQ and two 24-hour dietary recalls (24DRs), in nonconsecutive days during the same week were measured from 178 adolescents and 230 adults participating in the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey-2012.Validity was evaluated using correlation coefficients (CC),deattenuated CC, linear regression models, cross-classification analysis, and the Bland-Altman method.
Results:
In adults, deattenuated correlation coefficients between the SFFQ and the 24DRs ranged from 0.30 for folate to 0.61 for saturated fat. In addition, 63% adults and 62% adolescents were classified in the same and adjacent quartile of nutrient intake when comparing data from SFFQ and 24DRs.
Conclusions:
The SFFQ had moderate validity for energy, macronutrients and micronutrients. It also had good validity to rank individuals according to their dietary intake of different nutrients.
Keywords : food frequency questionnaire; validity; adult; adolescents; survey; Mexico.