Abstract
Traditional methods for assessing dietary behavior such as 24-hour dietary recalls, diet records, and food frequency questionnaires may not measure what we want to know about dietary behaviors of a population. Moreover, their usefulness is often limited in nutrition interventions because of cost, respondent burden, bias, and staff requirements ( (1) Kristal A.R. Shattuck A.L. Henry H.J. Patterns of dietary behavior associated with selecting diets low in fat reliability and validity of a behavioral approach to dietary assessment. J Am Diet Assoc. 1990; 90: 214-220 Google Scholar , (2) Kristal A.R. Shattuck A.L. Henry H.J. Fowler A.S. Rapid assessment of dietary intake of fat, fiber, and saturated fat validity of an instrument suitable for community intervention research and nutritional surveillance. Am J Health Promotion. 1990; 4: 288-295 Google Scholar , (3) Gray-Donald K. J O.L. Richard L. Paradis G. Validation of a short telephone administered questionnaire to evaluate dietary interventions in low income communities in Montreal, Canada. J Epidemiol Community Health. 1997; 51: 326-331 Google Scholar , (4) Connor S.L. Gustafson J.R. Sexton G. Becker N. Artaud-Wild S. Connor W.E. The Diet Habit Survey a new method of dietary assessment that relates to plasma cholesterol changes. J Am Diet Assoc. 1992; 92: 41-47 Google Scholar , (5) Gans K.M. Sundaram S.G. McPhillips J.B. Hixson M.L. Linnan L. Carelton R.A. Rate Your Plate an eating assessment and education tool used at cholesterol screening and education programs. J Nutr Educ. 1993; 25: 29-35 Google Scholar , (6) Ammerman A.S. Haines P.S. DeVellis R.F. Strogatz D.S. Keyserling T.C. Simpson Jr., R.J. Siscovick D.S. A brief dietary assessment to guide cholesterol reduction in low-income individuals design and validation. J Am Diet Assoc. 1991; 91: 1385-1390 Google Scholar , (7) Glasgow R.E. Perry J.D. Toobert D.J. Hollis J.F. Brief assessments of dietary behavior in field settings. Addict Behav. 1996; 21: 239-247 Google Scholar ). As an alternative, qualitative dietary fat index questionnaires (QFQs) have been developed to assess dietary behavior. This project was funded, in part, by the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors thank Mary Serdula, MD, for her suggestions and commentary on an earlier version of this manuscript.
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