To evaluate the impact of a vegetable-focused cooking skills and nutrition program on parent and child psychosocial measures, vegetable liking, variety, and home availability.
Our outcome measure, vegetable and fruit intake, is based on the Canadian Community Health Survey 2010, and participants self-reported the frequency per day of fruits and vegetable eaten rather than the number of servings consumed.
Six questions measure vegetables and fruit intake in grams per day, asking about consumption of salad, other vegetables, and pieces of fruit.
To determine the reliability and validity of a questionnaire measuring fruit and vegetable (FV) self-efficacy and social norms during school lunch among 5th graders.
Eating raw salads or vegetables, as measured by the vegetable index variable, was also associated with a reduced risk for infection.
However, these questionnaires were not specifically developed to measure fruit-vegetable and fat intake in worksite canteens.
Nevertheless, these questionnaires were used to measure fruit-vegetable and fat intake, because of a lack of a validated short food frequency questionnaire, which are applicable to measure Dutch worksite food patterns.
The validated Short Fruit and Vegetable questionnaire was used to measure fruit and vegetable consumption.
Mr. Wall, who was inspired by Michael Pollan's "Omnivore's Dilemma," explains: "When I ferment, I feel like a magician, chopping strange vegetables and measuring out handfuls of spices into boiling pots and bubbling crocks.
Concerning the validity of reported food habits, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) questionnaire for measuring intake of fruit, vegetables, sweets and soft drinks has been recognized as a valid instrument in epidemiological studies ranking adolescents according to their usual food intake [ 63].
