Reproducibility of a Questionnaire for Dietary Habits, Lifestyle and Nutrition Knowledge Assessment (KomPAN) in Polish Adolescents and Adults

Abstract

The aim of the study was to evaluate the reproducibility of the Dietary Habits and Nutrition Beliefs Questionnaire (KomPAN) in Polish adolescents and adults, including the assessment of indexes developed based on the questionnaire. In total, the study involved 954 subjects aged 15–65 (53.9% females). Interviews using the interviewer-administered questionnaire (IA-Q) in healthy subjects (n 299) and the self-administered questionnaire (SA-Q) in healthy subjects (n 517) and outpatients (n 138) were conducted and repeated after two weeks. Considering the consumption frequency of 33 food items, the cross-classification (test-retest) agreement of classification into the same category obtained for IA-Q in healthy subjects ranged from 72.2% (fruit juices) to 91.6% (energy drinks); the kappa statistic was >0.60 for all food items. For SA-Q conducted in healthy subjects the cross-classification agreement ranged from 63.8% (vegetable oils, margarines, mixes of butter and margarines) to 84.7% (lard); the kappa statistic was >0.50 for all food items. For SA-Q in outpatients, the cross-classification agreement ranged from 42.0% (both fruit juices and white rice, white pasta, fine-ground groats) to 92.0% (energy drinks); the kappa statistic was ≥0.40 for 20/33 food items. The kappa statistic for lifestyle items ranged 0.42–0.96, and for the nutrition knowledge level it ranged 0.46–0.73. The questionnaire showed moderate to very good reproducibility and can be recommended to assess dietary habits, lifestyle and nutrition knowledge of healthy adolescents and adults and those suffering from chronic diseases, after validation and/or calibration study is carried out. The reproducibility of the interviewer-administered questionnaire was better than its self-administered version. The reproducibility of the self-administered questionnaire was better in healthy subjects than in outpatients.

Test-Retest Reliability of a Food Frequency Questionnaire to Assess Seafood Intake Dynamics for High-End Consumers in Coastal Gulf of Mexico Communities

“…Amongst all participants, yearly consumption rate items were slightly more reliable than seasonal consumption rate items with mean weighted kappa coefficient of 0.94 and 0.93, respectively. In other test-retest studies of FFQs examining consumption of fish and shellfish, kappa coefficients range from 0.45 to 0.75 [18][19][20]. is FFQ showed relatively higher kappa coefficients, indicating good reproducibility and reliability.…”

“…e reproducibility study on the dietary habits of Polish adolescents and adults used a test-retest interval of 14 days, which is similar to the current study test-retest interval of 21 days. e Polish study reported a kappa statistic of 0.75 for fish consumption on the interviewer-administered questionnaire [20]. Careful consideration was also made to ensure that the seasonal section of the questionnaire assessed the same time period for both administrations.…”

Reproducibility of a Short-Form, Multicomponent Dietary Questionnaire to Assess Food Frequency Consumption, Nutrition Knowledge, and Lifestyle (SF-FFQ4PolishChildren) in Polish Children and Adolescents

“…To evaluate overall diet quality, a pro-healthy diet index (pHDI) and a non-healthy diet index (nHDI) were established based on previous knowledge and other studies [15,23]. The diet quality scores were created a priori by summing the consumption frequencies (times/day) of the following food items: The pHDI-dairy products, fish, vegetables, fruit; the nHDI-fast food, sweetened soft drinks, energy drinks and sweets [22].…”

“…To the best of our knowledge, there are only a few food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) in Poland for which reproducibility or relative validity among children or adolescents is assessed [14][15][16]. The relative validity of a semi-quantitative FFQ against repeated 24-h dietary recalls was evaluated in Polish children aged 3 years old, showing overestimation of energy and nutrient intake by the FFQ (e.g., median of differences in energy intake between the two methods was 255.4 kcal, and in the range of 7.0-31.0 g for intake of macronutrients) [14].…”

“…The relative validity of a semi-quantitative FFQ against repeated 24-h dietary recalls was evaluated in Polish children aged 3 years old, showing overestimation of energy and nutrient intake by the FFQ (e.g., median of differences in energy intake between the two methods was 255.4 kcal, and in the range of 7.0-31.0 g for intake of macronutrients) [14]. A non-quantitative FFQ (KomPAN ® ) was tested in Polish adolescents and adults aged 15-65 years, showing moderate to very good reproducibility of the questionnaire (e.g., kappa statistic for food items was in the range of 0.62-0.84 for the interviewer-administered questionnaire and 0.5-0.78 for the self-administered questionnaire in healthy subjects) [15]. Another non-quantitative FFQ (62-item FFQ-6) was tested in Polish females aged 13-21 years, demonstrating good or very good reproducibility for most food items and acceptable-to-good reproducibility of identification of dietary patterns (e.g., the Spearman correlations were more than 0.50 for 57 out of 62 food items, and for dietary pattern scores were in the range of 0.48-0.84 in the total sample) [16].…”