Development and testing of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire for use in Kerala, India

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-130

  Hebert, James R ^a   Gupfa, Prakash C ^b   Bhonsle, Ramesh B ^b   Murti, P R ^b,c   Mehta, Hemali ^b   Verghese, Florence ^b   Aghi, Mira ^b   Krishnaswamy, Kamala ^d   Mehta, Fali S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

Author keywords

Dietary assessment methods; Food frequency questionnaire; Human nutrition; India

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIET; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DIET RECORDS; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 0032081632     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/phn19980019     Document Type: Article

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