TY - JOUR AU - Watson, Jane F. AU - Collins, Clare E. AU - Sibbritt, David W. AU - Dibley, Michael J. AU - Garg, Manohar L. PY - 2009 DA - 2009/09/11 TI - Reproducibility and comparative validity of a food frequency questionnaire for Australian children and adolescents JO - International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity SP - 62 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Dietary intake during childhood and adolescence is of increasing interest due to its influence on adult health, particularly obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. There is a need to develop and validate dietary assessment methods suitable for large epidemiologic studies of children and adolescents. Limited large scale dietary studies of youth have been undertaken in Australia, due partly to the lack of a suitable dietary intake tool. A self-administered, semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ), the 'Australian Child and Adolescent Eating Survey' (ACAES), was developed for youth aged 9-16 years. This study evaluated reproducibility and comparative validity of the ACAES FFQ using assisted food records (FRs) as the reference method. SN - 1479-5868 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-6-62 DO - 10.1186/1479-5868-6-62 ID - Watson2009 ER -