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Tool Information: Diet History Interview

Action
Macronutrient, Micronutrient Usual; Retrospective 1 Year Diet History No

Summary

This tool is a paper based diet history. Using standard portion sizes and photographs, it is intended to measure weekly dietary intakes of fibre, fat and calcium in an elderly population across the previous year. The tool was validated in 1990.

Contact Information info

jlittle@uottawa.ca

Tool Website

Special Considerations

An updated food composition table is required.

Last Updated info

30/08/2017

Software Required

Not reported

Training Required

Interviewers need to be trained.

Instructions on use

Instructions on how to use the dietary assessment tool can be found in the publication and on the PDFs of the tool on the Nutritools website.

Administration Method

Interviewer-administered

Data Analysis

Instructions on how the dietary data was analysed can be found in the publications.

Author Year Comparator Lifestage Sex Number of Nutrients Validated Mean Difference Variance Measured info Correlation Coefficients Percentage Agreement Limits of Agreement Special Considerations Action
Jackson 1990 Food Frequency Questionnaire Elderly Both 3 The study was carried out in an area of inner city deprivation. All subjects with an Asian surname were excluded due to difference in diets and the possible language difficulties.
  • T054 - Images of portions sizes FileType: pdf, Download Number of downloads: 0
  • T054 - Jackson Diet History_MRC Survey FileType: pdf, Download Number of downloads: 0
  • T054 - Jackson Diet History_Page 1-20 FileType: pdf, Download Number of downloads: 0
  • T054 - Jackson Diet History_Transcription FileType: pdf, Download Number of downloads: 0

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