Assessing Dietary Diversity in Pregnant Women: Relative Validity of the List-Based and Open Recall Methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MMD-W) was validated as a proxy of micronutrient adequacy for nonpregnant women, with proposed data collection being either a list-based or a qualitative open recall method. Few studies have compared the performance of these 2 methods.

Objectives

We compared performance in predicting micronutrient adequacy of food group indicators (FGIs) measured by the list-based and the quantitative open recall methods using varying quantity cut-offs. We also examined the agreement between list-based and open recall FGIs.

Methods

Data were collected in Bangladesh (n = 600 pregnant women) and India (n = 655). The performance of different indicators to predict micronutrient adequacy was compared using receiver operating

SUBMITTER: Nguyen PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7101484 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature