The reliability and validity of a short FFQ among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous rural children

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ID15097232
AutoresJosephine D Gwynn (0000-0001-8760-0786, University of Newcastle Australia, autor correspondente), Victoria Flood (0000-0001-5310-7221, University of Wollongong), Victoria M Flood, Catherine D’Este (0000-0001-9125-0483, University of Newcastle Australia), Catherine A D’Este, John Attia (0000-0001-9800-1308, University of Newcastle Australia), John R Attia, Nicole Turner (0009-0004-6286-598X, Tharawal Aboriginal), Janine Cochrane (Tharawal Aboriginal), John Wiggers (0000-0001-6361-9685, University of Newcastle Australia), John H Wiggers
Ano2011
Volume14
Fascículo3
Páginas388-401
Data de publicação2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPublic Health Nutrition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-9800 • E-ISSN: 1475-2727
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1368980010001928
PMID20633315
OpenAlexW2119764195
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas28

Objective To determine the reproducibility and validity of a short FFQ (SFFQ) for Australian rural children aged 10 to 12 years, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Design In this cross-sectional study participants completed the SFFQ on two occasions and three 24 h recalls. Concurrent validity was established by comparing results of the first SFFQ against food recalls; reproducibility was established by comparing the two SFFQ. Setting The north coast of New South Wales in the Australian summer of late 2005. Subjects Two hundred and forty-one children (ninety-two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and 100 boys) completed two SFFQ and were included in the reproducibility study; of these, 205 participants with a mean age of 10·8 ( sd 0·7) years took part in the validity study. Results The SFFQ showed moderate to good reproducibility among all children with kappa coefficients for repeated measures between 0·41 and 0·80. Eighteen of twenty-three questions demonstrated good validity against the mean of the 24 h recalls, with statistically significant increasing trends ( P ≤ 0·05) for mean daily weight and/or frequency as survey response categories increased. A similar number of short questions showed good validity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children as for their non-Indigenous counterparts. Conclusions Many short questions in this SFFQ are able to discriminate between different categories of food intake and provide information on relative intake within the given population. They can be used to monitor and/or evaluate population-wide health programmes, including those with rural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Environmental health · Geography · Indigenous · Pacific islanders · Population · Psychometrics · Validity · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Medicine · Nutritional Studies and Diet · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet