Dietary Assessment Instruments for Research

The HEI is a summary measure of overall diet quality.

A free food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for use by researchers, clinicians, or teachers.

Register contains studies and publications which compare dietary intake estimates from two or more dietary assessment methods.

Summary report of research on key health behaviors and lifestyle factors affecting disease.

For public health researchers, a searchable database of diet and physical activity measures (or tools) relevant to childhood obesity research to promote the consistent use of common measures and research methods.

ASA24 is a freely available web-based tool for epidemiologic, interventional, behavioral, or clinical research that enables multiple automatically coded self-administered 24-hour recalls and food records. The ASA24 system can also be used by clinicians for diet assessment and nutritional counseling and educators for teaching about nutrition or dietary assessment.

Find short dietary assessment instruments, also known as screeners, for fruit and vegetable, fiber, and fat intake. Also read about appropriate uses of theses screeners.