A Simple Food Frequency Questionnaire for Japanese Diet-Part II. Reproducibility and Validity for Nutrient Intakes.

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  • Egami Isuzu
    Department of Food and Nutrition, Nagoya Bunri College
  • Wakai Kenji
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • Kato Kumiko
    Nagoya City Personnel Health Management Center
  • Line Yingsong
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • Kawamura Takashi
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • Tamakoshi Akiko
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • Aoki Rie
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • Kojima Masayo
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • Nakayama Toshiko
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine
  • Wada Masaya
    Nagoya City Personnel Health Management Center
  • Ohno Yoshiyuki
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine

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A self-administered 97-item simple food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), without portion size questions for most items, was completed twice at an one-year interval by 88 men and women in central Japan to evaluate its reproducibility. This FFQ was further validated by referring to four 4-day weighed dietary records (DRs) which were performed at 3-month intervals. Mean energy and 18 nutrient intakes measured by the first and the second FFQs were quite similar to those measured by the DRs. In our reproducibility study, Pearson and intraclass correlation coefficients, adjusted for energy intake, sex and age, ranged from 0.48 to 0.82 (median =0.67). In the validation study, adjusted and de-attenuated correlation coefficients between the second FFQ and the DRs ranged from 0.42 for iron to 0.83 for calcium (median=0.61). The proportion of subjects classified by the FFQ into the same or adjacent quintiles defined by the DRs was between 65.9% and 83.0% (median=69.9%). These findings essentially suggested that our FFQ is well reproducible and sufficiently valid, and therefore, reasonably useful for nutritional epidemiological studies for Japanese diets, particularly for those of Tokai Area. J Epidemiol, 1999; 9 : 227-234.

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