RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF A SIMPLIFIED FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR MIDDLE-AGED AND ELDERLY POPULATION

HE Rui; PU Fang-fang; LIN Jia-ling; WEI Yao-yao; LIU Pu-jian; HU Wen

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Acta Nutrimenta Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (3) : 300-307.

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RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF A SIMPLIFIED FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR MIDDLE-AGED AND ELDERLY POPULATION

HE Rui¹, PU Fang-fang², LIN Jia-ling³, WEI Yao-yao⁴, LIU Pu-jian², HU Wen^1,2

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Objective The reliability and validity of a self-designed Simplified Food Frequency Questionnaire (SFFQ) for middle-aged and elderly population were evaluated, in order to provide a simple and reliable tool for dietary surveys in local residents. Methods A total of 145 subjects were randomly recruited from selected communities in Chengdu from October 2022 to January 2023. The first SFFQ and 3-days 24-h dietary recall were conducted at the beginning, and the second SFFQ and 3-days 24-h dietary recall were conducted 4 weeks later. Spearman correlation analysis was used to evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire by comparing the energy / nutrients / foods correlations between the two SFFQs, and the validity of the questionnaire was evaluated by comparing the correlation between the mean of two SFFQs and the mean of two 3-days 24-h dietary recalls. Results For the two SFFQs, the Spearman correlation coefficient (r) of energy and nutrients was from 0.380 to 0.637, and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was from 0.253 to 0.558. The r of the foods was from 0.318 to 0.703, and the ICC was from 0.140 to 0.674. The r between energy and nutrients intakes by SFFQ and 3-days 24-h dietary recall ranged from 0.412 to 0.771 and from 0.186 to 0.883 for foods. It was shown in the Bland-Altman analysis that scatter points were almost distributed within the 95% limits of the agreement. Conclusion The reliability and validity of the SFFQ designed in this study are reasonable, and application in evaluating energy and nutrients intakes in middle-aged and elderly people are expected.

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food frequency questionnaire / 3-days 24-h dietary recall / reliability / validity

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HE Rui, PU Fang-fang, LIN Jia-ling, WEI Yao-yao, LIU Pu-jian, HU Wen. RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF A SIMPLIFIED FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR MIDDLE-AGED AND ELDERLY POPULATION[J]. Acta Nutrimenta Sinica. 2025, 47(3): 300-307

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