Reproducibility and validity of a food frequency questionnaire among fourth to seventh grade inner-city school children: Implications of age and day-to-day variation in dietary intake

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 293-300

  Field, Alison E ^a   Peterson, Karen E ^a   Gortmaker, Steve L ^a   Cheung, Lilian ^a   Rockett, Helaine ^a   Fox, Mary Kay ^a   Colditz, Graham A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Children; Diet; Diet assessment

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; DIETARY INTAKE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032884712     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1368980099000397     Document Type: Article

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