Dietary Assessment

Question 1

Identify
A study activity intended to measure the quantity and
quality of diet or habitual food intake, among
individuals or population groups, in a particular area for
a given period of time

Answer 1

Food Consumption Survey

Question 2

Which is not a reason to do dietary assessment?
A. Planning of food and nutrition programmes
B. Formulation and evaluation of agricultural policies for production, distribution and consumption of food
C. To study the relationship between diet and health, and
to identify groups at risk of developing disease
D. To develop and evaluate intervention strategies and
educational programmes
E. none of the above

Answer 2

E

Question 3

T or F

The dietary assessment method determines nutritional status.

Answer 3

F

it only identifies risk of deficiency

Question 4

What is Hawthorne effect?

Answer 4

When you are interviewed, you feel like you are

being observed; you tend to modify behavior

Question 5

What is Flat Slope Syndrome?

Answer 5

Those who are underwieght has the tendency to
overestimate their food intake, those who are fat
have the tendency to underestimatre their intake

Question 6

What are phantom foods?

Answer 6

foods that are not given during
the interview process; accompaniments which
are sometimes not asked that has effect on the
energy intake (

Question 7

identify
A national account of the annual production of food,
changes in stocks, imports and exports, and distributor
of food over various use within the country

Answer 7

food balance sheet

Question 8

true or false

The Food Balance Sheet shows distribution of available food supplies

Answer 8

false

does not dapat

Question 9

identify
Report nationally protected unit and sales of most
packaged foods sold in grocery stores

Answer 9

market databases

Question 10

identify
Standard multi-digit numbers with a machine-readable
code that represents product, size, manufacturer, and
the nature of the contents

Answer 10

universal product code

Question 11

identify
Consists of daily record, prepared by the householder,
of all food entering the household, either purchased,
received as gifts, or produced for household use
during a specific period of usually 7 days

Answer 11

family food account

Question 12

Which is not part of the food record?

a. weight or volume of family meal
b. detailed description of foods (i.e. brand name)
c. method of preparation
d. who ate it

Answer 12

D

Question 13

identify
Weighed inventory of foods eaten by the family over a
1-week period

Answer 13

food record

Question 14

identify
Estimation of food (by weight or household measure)
eaten by each family member

Answer 14

food list

Question 15

Which has longer days because it is affected by seasonal variation?
A. micronutrients
B. macronutrients
C. both are affected
D. none are affected

Answer 15

A

Question 16

In Level 1 of Measuring Nutrient Intake, what spec factor is being measured?

Answer 16

Mean nutrient intake of a group)

Question 17

In Level 2 of Measuring Nutrient Intake, what spec factor is being measured?

Answer 17

proportion of the population at risk

Question 18

In Level 3 of Measuring Nutrient Intake, what spec factor is being measured?

Answer 18

(Usual intake of nutrients in individuals for ranking

within a group)

Question 19

In Level 4 of Measuring Nutrient Intake, what spec factor is being measured?

Answer 19

Usual intake of food/nutrients in individuals for

counselling or correlation/regression analysis

Question 20

identify
Assesses actual food intake of an individual during
previous 24-hour period or preceding day

Answer 20

24 hour recall

Question 21

___ 24 hr recalls can be used to assess usual nutrient intakes for an individual and prevalence of inadequate nutrient intakes within each subgroup in a population
A. single
B. repeated
C. both

Answer 21

B

Question 22

___24 hr recall can be used for large-scale field studies to
characterize average intakes of population groups
when the subjects are representative to the population
A. single
B. repeated
C. both

Answer 22

A

Question 23

False about 24 hr recall
A. does not require a trained interviewer
B. Seldom representative of usual intake
C. fails to note how weekends, seasons and holidays make us grow bigger

Answer 23

A

it needs a trained interviewer

Question 24

another name for Estimated Food Record

Answer 24

Food Diary

Question 25

Which is not true about food diary?
A. Accuracy depends on the ability of respondents to
estimate quantities
B. Longer time frames result in a higher respondent burden
and lower cooperation
C. Subjects subject need not be literate

Answer 25

C

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Question 26

false about Weighed Food Record
A. Weighing of all foods and beverages taken (except those less than 250 mL)
B. Recording of the weights of edible/inedible portion,
amounts before eating and plate wastes
C. Subjects may change their usual eating patterns to
simplify weighing or impress investigator

Answer 26

A

Question 27

identify
An extensive interview designed to elicit the usual
customary diet of individuals over a long period of
time

Answer 27

dietary history

Question 28

• Recall of usual dietary intake
• Probing of frequency of consumption of specific foods
• Recording of the measurement of recent food intake
(3-day food record) – often abandoned
• Mode of administration - interview

to which dietary assessment tool does this procedure belong?

Answer 28

dietary history

Question 29

Identify the tool
• Obtain qualitative, descriptive information about usual
food consumption patterns
• May reflect a long-term habitual intake of an individual
• Useful in Epidemiological studies – ranks foods in low,
medium or high intakes of specific foods, food
components or nutrients

Answer 29

Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ)

Question 30

2 types of food frequency questionnaire = identify

Answer 30

quantitative and semi-quantitative

Question 31

Which component of FFQ is not found in both types of FFQ?
A. list of foods
B. set of frequency-of-use response categorie
C. potion size estimates

Answer 31

C. potion size estimates (for semi-quantitative only)

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Question 32

two modes of administration for FFQ - enumerate

Answer 32

Self-administered

• Interview

Question 33

to which assessment method does this procedure belong to?
• Extensive training on estimating food portion sizes
and protocol for unobstrusive observation
• Trained personnel observe food consumption
• Recording of food intake

Answer 33

Direct Observation

Question 34

False about random error
A. May be produced by variations in measuring and
recording processes
B. Can be reduced by decreasing sample size
C. Can be reduced by using standardized measurement
techniques and trained personnel

Answer 34

B

increasing dapat

Question 35

False about systematic errors
A) May be associated with only some respondents,
specific interviewers or certain foods
B) Can be reduced by increasing sample size
C) Can be reduced by repeating the measurement or by
increased use of validation/calibration study

Answer 35

B

cannot dapat

Question 36

identify
a user-friendly interactive CD-ROM software
that Provides quick and correct data analysis and
technical graphics outputs on priority food and
nutrition technologies and information

Answer 36

FCT + Menu Eval

Question 37

formula for Nutrient Adequacy Ratio

Answer 37

(Nutrient intake/RENI value) x 100