Development of a Multilingual Web-Based Food Frequency Questionnaire for Adults in Switzerland.

ABSTRACT: Dietary assessment is a major challenge in epidemiological research and is associated with a high time and financial burden. Automated food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) have the potential to rapidly collect dietary intake data in large studies while reducing human error risk during data processing. We developed a semiquantitative, multilingual, electronic FFQ for real-time dietary intake assessment in the Swiss adult population, called "Swiss eFFQ". The iterative development process involved stages of content identification, construction, pretesting, translation, and adaptation of the FFQ. Using 24 h dietary recalls from 2085 participants aged 18-75 years from a nationally representative survey, we conducted a stepwise regression analysis to identify foods contributing to >90% of the va

SUBMITTER: Pannen ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10610353 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature