Validity and reproducibility of a precoded questionnaire to assess fruit and vegetable intake in European 11- to 12-year-old schoolchildren

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 221-227

  Haraldsdóttir, Jóhanna ^a   Thórsdóttir, Inga ^b,c   Vaz De Almeida, Maria Daniel ^d   Maes, Lea ^e   Pérez Rodrigo, Carmen ^f   Elmadfa, Ibrahim ^g   Andersen, Lene Frost ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f Department of Public Health   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Children; Fruit consumption; Validation; Vegetable consumption

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHILD NUTRITION; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; ICELAND; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPAIN; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEGETABLE;

CHILD; DIET; DIET RECORDS; DIET SURVEYS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOLS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VEGETABLES;

EID: 23944435883     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087276     Document Type: Article

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