Tool Information: FFQ (Food stores)
Action | ||||||
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Food Groups | Retrospective; Usual | Day/Week/Month | Food Frequency Questionnaire | No | Detailed Information | Web Link |
Summary
This tool is a semi-quantitive food frequency questionnaire containing 90-items including qualitative questions regarding food use and cooking practices. This tool was developed to measure usual frequencies of intake in elderly Australians. The tool was used for a postal survey of nearly 2,200 people slected at random from electoral rolls of metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. The validation study was carried out in 1986.
Contact Information
Tool Website
Special Considerations
Seasonality of many food items were taken into account.
Last Updated
06/12/2017
Software Required
Not reported
Training Required
Not repored
Instructions on use
Not reported
Administration Method
Self-administered
Data Analysis
Instuctions on how the dietary data was analysed can be found in the publications and website
Author | Year | Comparator | Lifestage | Sex | Number of Nutrients Validated | Mean Difference | Variance Measured | Correlation Coefficients | Percentage Agreement | Limits of Agreement | Special Considerations | Action | |
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Horwath | 1990 | Direct Observation | Elderly | Both | 0 | ✓ | N/A | Detailed Information | Web Link |