Validation of Vitamin D-Specific Food Frequency Questionnaire against Food Records for Qatari Women

<p dir="ltr">The measurement of vitamin D nutritional status through dietary assessment is cost effective. Food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) is usually validated against food records (FR). There is no vitamin D-specific FFQ for Qatar population. The objective of this study was to de...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Vijay Ganji (8710491) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Reem Abu-Dbaa (20280270) (author), Haneen Othman (20280273) (author), Menatallah Zewein (20280276) (author), Tamara Al-Abdi (8710488) (author), Zumin Shi (287671) (author)
منشور في: 2020
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الملخص:<p dir="ltr">The measurement of vitamin D nutritional status through dietary assessment is cost effective. Food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) is usually validated against food records (FR). There is no vitamin D-specific FFQ for Qatar population. The objective of this study was to develop a vitamin D-centric FFQ and validate FFQ against three-day FR for Qatar population. A quantitative FFQ based on vitamin D containing foods consumed in Qatar was developed. Vitamin D contents of foods were gathered from food labels and food composition tables from the United States Department of Agriculture. A vitamin D content database was developed for this study purpose. Dietary intakes while using FFQ and three-day FR were collected from 62 women. Vitamin D intakes from FFQ and three-day FR were validated with quartile comparison and Bland-Altman (BA) tests. BA plot showed an agreement between FFQ and three-day FR vitamin D intakes. The BA index was 3.23%, which is <5%, a commonly used standard for validation. Quartile correlation showed that ≈73% of subjects were within the same or adjacent quartile. In conclusion, an agreement was found between vitamin D intakes from FFQ and three-day FR in Qatari women. More studies are needed to validate the vitamin D-specific FFQ in Qatari population at large.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Foods<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9020195" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9020195</a></p>