E-KINDEX: A Dietary Screening Tool to Assess Children's Obesogenic Dietary Habits

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 100-112

  Lazarou, Chrystalleni ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Spanoudis, George ^b   Matalas, Antonia Leda ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Childhood obesity; Dietary assessment; Dietary index; Dietary patterns; Self monitoring tool

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HABIT; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SOCIAL STATUS; VALIDATION STUDY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CYPRUS; DIET; EATING; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79960401860     PISSN: 07315724     EISSN: 15411087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07315724.2011.10719949     Document Type: Article

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