Relative validity of the Children's Eating Habits Questionnaire-food frequency section among young European children: The IDEFICS Study

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 266-276

  Bel Serrat, Silvia ^a   Mouratidou, Theodora ^a   Pala, Valeria ^b   Huybrechts, Inge ^c   Börnhorst, Claudia ^d   Fernández Alvira, Juan Miguel ^a   Hadjigeorgiou, Charalampos ^e   Eiben, Gabriele ^f   Hebestreit, Antje ^d   Lissner, Lauren ^f   Molnár, Dénes ^g   Siani, Alfonso ^h   Veidebaum, Toomas ⁱ   Krogh, Vittorio ^b   Moreno, Luis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e Research and Education Institute for Child Health   (Cyprus)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^h CNR   (Italy)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

Author keywords

24 h Dietary recall; Children; FFQ; Proxy reports; Relative validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET RECORDS; ENERGY INTAKE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84896479982     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012005368     Document Type: Article

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