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Short Dietary Assessment Instruments:
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Short Dietary Assessment Instruments
Short dietary assessment instruments, often called screeners, may be useful in
situations that do not require assessment of the total diet or quantitative accuracy in
dietary estimates. Recognizing the need for these tools, the Risk Factor Monitoring and
Methods Branch (RFMMB) has developed several short instruments that assess intake of
fruits and vegetables, percent energy from fat, and/or fiber.
The tools have been evaluated in cross-sectional general population studies, and are
being evaluated currently for use in self-selected samples in intervention
research. In addition, these tools have been used in large population studies, such as
the National Health Information
Survey (NHIS) and the California Health Information
Survey (CHIS), which had only very limited room for questions on diet.
Estimates of intake from short dietary assessment instruments are not as accurate as
those from more detailed methods, such as 24-hour dietary recalls. Short dietary
assessment instruments may be most useful for:
- characterizing a population's median intakes;
- discriminating among individuals or populations with regard to higher vs. lower intakes;
- examining interrelationships between diet and other variables; and
- comparing findings from a smaller study to a larger population study, such as to NHIS or CHIS.
Fruit & Vegetable
- With portion size questions
- Without portion size questions
Percentage Energy from Fat
Fiber
Added Sugar
Dairy
Calcium
Red Meat/Processed Meat
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