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Race-specific validation of food intake obtained from a comprehensive FFQ: the Adventist Health Study-2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2011

Karen Jaceldo-Siegl*
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, 24785 Stewart Street, EH 203, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA Adventist Health Study-2, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Jing Fan
Affiliation:
Adventist Health Study-2, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Joan Sabaté
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, 24785 Stewart Street, EH 203, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Synnove F Knutsen
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Ella Haddad
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, 24785 Stewart Street, EH 203, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA
W Lawrence Beeson
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
R Patti Herring
Affiliation:
Department of Health Promotion and Education, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Terrence L Butler
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Hannelore Bennett
Affiliation:
Adventist Health Study-2, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Gary E Fraser
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA Adventist Health Study-2, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
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*Corresponding author: Email kjaceldo@llu.edu
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Abstract

Objective

To assess race-specific validity of food and food group intakes measured using an FFQ.

Design

Calibration study participants were randomly selected from the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) cohort by church, and then by subject-within-church. Intakes of forty-seven foods and food groups were assessed using an FFQ and then compared with intake estimates measured using six 24 h dietary recalls (24HDR). We used two approaches to assess the validity of the questionnaire: (i) cross-classification by quartile and (ii) de-attenuated correlation coefficients.

Setting

Seventh-day Adventist church members geographically spread throughout the USA and Canada.

Subjects

Members of the AHS-2 calibration study (550 whites and 461 blacks).

Results

The proportion of participants with exact quartile agreement in the FFQ and 24HDR averaged 46 % (range: 29–87 %) in whites and 44 % (range: 25–88 %) in blacks. The proportion of quartile gross misclassification ranged from 1 % to 11 % in whites and from 1 % to 15 % in blacks. De-attenuated validity correlations averaged 0·59 in whites and 0·48 in blacks. Of the forty-seven foods and food groups, forty-three in whites and thirty-three in blacks had validity correlations >0·4.

Conclusions

The AHS-2 questionnaire has good validity for most foods in both races; however, validity correlations tend to be higher in whites than in blacks.

Information

Type
Research paper
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2011
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Table 1 Food and food group intakes from the FFQ and 24HDR† by race in Adventist Health Study-2 calibration study participants (2003–2008)

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Table 2 Agreement between the categorization of food intake estimated from the FFQ and 24HDR by race in Adventist Health Study-2 calibration study participants (2003–2008)†

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Table 3 Energy-adjusted validity correlations† comparing log-transformed data from an FFQ to that from repeated 24HDR: Adventist Health Study-2 calibration study (2003–2008)