TY - JOUR
T1 - Food frequency questionnaire as a screening test
AU - Tsubono, Yoshitaka
AU - Ogawa, Keiko
AU - Watanabe, Yoko
AU - Nishino, Yoshikazu
AU - Tsuji, Ichiro
AU - Watanabe, Takao
AU - Nakatsuka, Haruo
AU - Takahashi, Nobuko
AU - Kawamura, Mieko
AU - Hisamichi, Shigeru
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - We assessed the accuracy of a 141-item food frequency questionnaire as a screening test to detect high or low consumption of nutrients associated with cancer. Fifty-five men and 58 women participating in two population-based cohort studies in Miyagi, Japan, provided four three-day diet records over a one-year period and subsequently completed the questionnaire twice with a one-year interval. Pearson correlation coefficients between 17 nutrients measured by the diet records and the first questionnaire ranged from 0.24 to 0.85 (median 0.43), and those between the two questionnaires ranged from 0.47 to 0.91 (median 0.68). The sensitivity and specificity of the questionnaire for detecting high-alcohol, high-fat, low-calcium, and low-ascorbic acid consumers were 86.7% and 96.7%, 50.0% and 85.7%, 48.8% and 76.4%, and 61.9% and 70.0%, respectively. Receiver operating characteristic curves indicated comparable performance of the questionnaire and a three-day diet record, regarded as another screening test. The questionnaire performed poorly for other nutrients. The results indicate that our questionnaire is reasonably reproducible, comparable with the diet records, and useful as a screening test to detect high or low consumers of several nutrients associated with cancer for subsequent enrollment in dietary intervention trials or dietary counseling.
AB - We assessed the accuracy of a 141-item food frequency questionnaire as a screening test to detect high or low consumption of nutrients associated with cancer. Fifty-five men and 58 women participating in two population-based cohort studies in Miyagi, Japan, provided four three-day diet records over a one-year period and subsequently completed the questionnaire twice with a one-year interval. Pearson correlation coefficients between 17 nutrients measured by the diet records and the first questionnaire ranged from 0.24 to 0.85 (median 0.43), and those between the two questionnaires ranged from 0.47 to 0.91 (median 0.68). The sensitivity and specificity of the questionnaire for detecting high-alcohol, high-fat, low-calcium, and low-ascorbic acid consumers were 86.7% and 96.7%, 50.0% and 85.7%, 48.8% and 76.4%, and 61.9% and 70.0%, respectively. Receiver operating characteristic curves indicated comparable performance of the questionnaire and a three-day diet record, regarded as another screening test. The questionnaire performed poorly for other nutrients. The results indicate that our questionnaire is reasonably reproducible, comparable with the diet records, and useful as a screening test to detect high or low consumers of several nutrients associated with cancer for subsequent enrollment in dietary intervention trials or dietary counseling.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15327914nc391_11
DO - 10.1207/S15327914nc391_11
M3 - Article
C2 - 11588906
AN - SCOPUS:0034826935
VL - 39
SP - 78
EP - 84
JO - Nutrition and Cancer
JF - Nutrition and Cancer
SN - 0163-5581
IS - 1
ER -