Validity and Reproducibility of a Habitual Dietary Fibre Intake Short Food Frequency Questionnaire.

ABSTRACT: Low dietary fibre intake has been associated with poorer health outcomes, therefore having the ability to be able to quickly assess an individual's dietary fibre intake would prove useful in clinical practice and for research purposes. Current dietary assessment methods such as food records and food frequency questionnaires are time-consuming and burdensome, and there are presently no published short dietary fibre intake questionnaires that can quantify an individual's total habitual dietary fibre intake and classify individuals as low, moderate or high habitual dietary fibre consumers. Therefore, we aimed to develop and validate a habitual dietary fibre intake short food frequency questionnaire (DFI-FFQ) which can quickly and accurately classify individuals based on their habitual dietary

SUBMITTER: Healey G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5037543 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature