Reproducibility and relative validity of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire designed for assessing the intake of dioxin-like contaminants

Environmental Research

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 327-333

  Bilau, Maaike ^a   Matthys, Christophe ^a,b   Bellemans, Mia ^a   De Neve, Melissa ^a   Willems, Jan L ^a   De Henauw, Stefaan ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dietary exposure; Dioxin like compounds; Estimated dietary record; FFQ; Validation

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DIET; FOOD INTAKE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDITY;

DIET RECORDS; DIET SURVEYS; DIOXINS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 54149085118     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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