Comparison of a Web-based versus traditional diet recall among children.
Self-administered instruments offer a low-cost diet assessment method for use in adult and pediatric populations. This study tested whether 8- to 13-year-old children could complete an early version of the Automated Self Administered 24-hour diet recall (ASA24) and how this compared to an interviewer-administered 24-hour diet recall. One-hundred twenty 8- to 13-year-old children were recruited in Houston from June through August 2009 and randomly assigned to complete either the ASA24 or an interviewer-administered 24-hour diet recall, followed by the other recall mode covering the same time interval. Multivariate analysis of variance, testing for differences by age, sex, and ethnic/racial group, were applied to percentages of food matches, intrusions, and omissions between reports on the ASA24 and the interviewer-administered 24-hour diet recall. For the ASA24, qualitative findings were reported regarding ease of use. Overall matches between interviewer-administered and ASA24 self-administered 24-hour diet recall was 47.8%. Matches were significantly lower among younger (8- to 9-year-old) compared with older (10- to 13-year-old) children. Omissions on ASA24 (18.9% overall) were most common among 8-year-olds and intermediate among 9-year-olds. Eight- and 9-year-olds had substantial difficulties and often required aid in completing ASA24. Findings from this study suggest that a simpler version of an Internet-based diet recall program would be easier for children to use.
USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates St, Houston TX, 77030-2600, USA. tbaranow@bcm.edu
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Baranowski
Noemi
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Islam
Janice
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Baranowski
Shelby
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Martin
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Beltran
Hafza
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Dadabhoy
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Adame
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Watson
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D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D003256:Community Participation; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004034:Diet Surveys / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004046:Dietetics / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires