Validation of 'POIBA-How do we eat?' questionnaire in 9-10 years old schoolchildren.

ABSTRACTBackground: It is difficult to obtain good food reports with Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQ) among children. In addition, validated questionnaires are scarce.Objective: The aim of this study was to validate the ‘POIBA-How do we eat?’ (POIBA-HDWE) FFQ and whether it could be administered to children under 10 years of age.Design: We validated the FFQ POIBA-HDWE as part of the Childhood Obesity Prevention Program (POIBA project) in Barcelona. Forty-two out of 63 primary school students (9–10 years old) answered three questionnaires: FFQ POBA-HDWE; another questionnaire, ‘POIBA-How do our children eat?’ (POIBA-HDOCE), which was administered to the children’s parents; and the 24-h recall computer program ‘Young Adolescents’ Nutrition Assessment on Computer’ (YANA-C), which was used on three different days as a gold standard. We tested for correlations using the Spearman test for non-parametric variables.Results: We found low compliance with food recommendations (<50%). The POIBA-HDWE and POIBA-HDOC...