Validation of an instrument to assess food diversity in women of childbearing age in Medellin, Colombia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To validate a Food Diversity Questionnaire (CDA, for its name in Spanish) that identifies the prevalence of the risk of deficiency in the intake of eleven micronutrients.

Design

The CDA paper form, an online application for data entry and handling, was designed and compared with the 24-h recall (24HR) as a reference method. All data were processed in Personal Computer Software for Intake Distribution Estimation (PC-SIDE) v1 software. A descriptive analysis and comparisons between prevalence, concordance and reproducibility analyses were performed.

Setting

Medellín, Colombia.

Participants

Women of childbearing age between 19 and 50 years (n 186) who worked for the Buen Comienzo programme in 2019.

Results

When comparing the adjusted 24HR t

SUBMITTER: Correa Guzman N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991835 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature