Reproducibility of food consumption frequencies derived from the children’s eating habits questionnaire used in the IDEFICS study

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 35, Issue , 2011, Pages S61-S68

  Lanfer, A ^a   Hebestreit, A ^a   Ahrens, W ^a   Krogh, V ^b   Sieri, S ^b   Lissner, L ^c   Eiben, G ^c   Siani, A ^d   Huybrechts, I ^e   Loit, H M ^f   Papoutsou, S ^g   Kovacs E ^h   Pala, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^g Research and Education Institute of Child Health   (Cyprus)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Children; Europe; Food frequency questionnaire; Proxy; Reliability; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILDREN EATING HABIT QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CYPRUS; DIET; ESTONIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUNGARY; ITALY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SWEDEN;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; EATING; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79954440448     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2011.36     Document Type: Article

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