Online dietary intake estimation: The food4me food frequency questionnaire

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Forster, Hannah ^a   Fallaize, Rosalind ^b   Gallagher, Caroline ^a   O'Donovan, Clare B ^a   Woolhead, Clara ^a   Walsh, Marianne C ^a   Macready, Anna L ^b   Lovegrove, Julie A ^b   Mathers, John C ^c   Gibney, Michael J ^a   Brennan, Lorraine ^a   Gibney, Eileen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dietary assessment; Food frequency questionnaire; Food4Me; Online dietary assessment tool; Web based

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CALORIC INTAKE; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; DIET; DIET RECORDS; DIET SURVEYS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84906222951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3105     Document Type: Article

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