Alright i understand the difference, thanks. My question was toward differences in nutritional intake. Could you suggest anything in that direction?

Nutrition status cannot be assessed through a questionnaire! There are already internationally recognized methods for assessing nutritional status of a population. And am not sure if food frequency questionnaires will suffice for assessing differences in nutritional intake among children. It will be difficult if not impossible using a questionnaire to capture the nutritional content of the food eaten by the study population.

As it was mentioned above, if you must need to use a quastionare, it will be very difficult. Even the food frequncy questionare is highly age dependent. If the children are too young, it needs to be filled out by the parent and they might not be able to monitore three meals if the child is eating at school. So, you need to be very careful with questionares to get a satisfied results.

If Anthropometric measurement are taken with this questionnaire its validity will increase and its adequate if quantity and quality of food should also be assesed by asking relevant questions

It should clearly state the purpose of the study, if you assess habitual food intake or if you want to evaluate the effect of an intervention to improve nutritional intake and compare it with a control group.

In the latter case the method for estimating nutrient intake across the 24-hour recall allows for the grams of consumption of each type of nutrient and if you can make the correction of habitual intake may reflect the child's food intake. An important aspect to note is that the quality of the information depends on the informant in this case must come from the child's caregiver that is present during all stages of feeding.

A good manual is Rosalind Gibson's book Principles of Nutritional Assessment

http://books.google.com.pe/books?id=lBlu7UKI3aQC&printsec=frontcover&hl=es&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=one

One possibility is a food record which should be filled in by the parents and caregivers./proxy person. Household measures can be used for quantifying tconsumed amounts together with pictures of portionssizes. Alternatively a weighted food record can be applied however that is even more burdensome for the parent/caregiver. In Denmark food records has been validated and used in children below the age of 6 (Gondolf et al. 2011)

I assume, the questionnaire will be addressed to a caregiver. In that case, the questionair can include items asking the respondent to measure height and weight and report the same.

it could be possible in some extent to measure the nutritional status through questionnire i.e. assessment of nutritional status through diatery assessment. but for children it is not appropriate way of measuring that. But, in my openion, you can use some anthropometric measurement along with the questionnire. 

I agree that nutritional anthropometry is essential for assessment of nutritional status. The question is can we ask, with help of some simple guidelines, care givers to do the measurement and report results. I am not aware of any study that has adopted such an approach. But one can try, if there are over riding constraints for the researcher to arrange for direct measurement by trained investigators. One possible alternative, in the Indian context, may be to ask respondents to take the child to nearest Angwanwadi Centre, have measurements taken with help of equipment available there and report the results.

To assess children's nutritional status, along with questionnaire, anthropometric measurements will provide valuable information on children’s nutritional status. Food intake, type of food, amount of food along with anthropometric measurements will contribute to validity of the study. Height and weight measurements can be challenging to be conducted in the field but it can be done with careful planning. The main three indices obtained through the height and weight measurements which contribute to nutritional status would be height-for-age; weight-for-height; and weight-for-age. These three indices are expressed as standard deviation units from the median for the international reference population as per WHO recommendation. 

In the USA child obesity is a problem and we assess risk for obesity via behaviors like consumption of sweet drinks and salty fatty foods and little or no water, low fat milk,  fruits, and vegetables.  Health practitioners also ask about frequency of physical activity and amount of time spent watching TV or playing video games. 

For under-nutrition, FAO/WHO has questionnaires on diet diversity for households and feeding patterns for infants and toddlers.  All of these are to screen for risk of nutritional problems and not to diagnose.  Diagnosis requires more in depth anthropometric, dietary and clinical/biochemical assessments.

Mariyam has explained very well. I think the anthropometry can do better with a good questionnaire. 

True, but my suggestion provides health practitioners  ways to intervene without labeling or alienating the parents who must be involved and ARE involved with the etiology and often maintenance of child obesity.

I am a nutritionist, in my practice I use quite the questionnaire as one of the assessment tools, allows us to assess the quality of the child's diet, as well as family habits. Are important tools for this analysis. In initial consultations use usual daily diet and in some cases ask daily food carried by the patient or their caregivers. The hospital level use food records in two or three days, after calculating specific program in order to analyze macro and micro nutrient intake, especially those malnourished or at nutritional risk. Agree with colleagues this tool must be associated with anthropometric and clinical history and laboratory tests, so we have a proper nutritional diagnosis.

You might be interested in the following papers for nutritional-status classification:

Acute malnutrition in a Child Suffering from Cardiac Problems

http://www.ngds-ku.org/Papers/J40.pdf

Gait Analysis of 7-10-Year-Old Children of Karachi from Nutritional-Status Perspective

http://www.ngds-ku.org/Papers/J41.pdf

Prof. Dr. Syed Arif Kamal

Please avoid Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQs) and other forms of memory-based dietary assessment methods. My work demonstrated these methods to be pseudo-scientific (i.e., non-falsifiable) and produce physiologically implausible (i.e., meaningless) data with no relation to actual dietary intake. Please see:

Archer E, Marlow ML, Lavie CJ. Controversy and Debate: Memory based Methods Paper 1: The Fatal Flaws of Food Frequency Questionnaires and other Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Methods. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2018.

Archer E, Marlow ML, Lavie CJ. Controversy and Debate: Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Methods Paper #3. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2018.

Archer E, Pavela G, Lavie CJ. The Inadmissibility of What We Eat in America and NHANES Dietary Data in Nutrition and Obesity Research and the Scientific Formulation of National Dietary Guidelines. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2015;90(7):911-926.

Best of luck,

Ed

The child's assessment of the child's nutritional status can be done by means of two methods. The first is that the paragraphs of the questionnaire are simple and understandable and the child can answer them. This method depends on the age of the child. The second method can be done by the parents who answer the questionnaire sections in case the questionnaire is long and difficult to answer. Child. In either case, the questionnaire should be clear, short and clear

Develop a set of questions that include the health history of the child and knowledge of the daily diet of the child in addition to knowledge of the nutritional status of the child through the likes and micro-foods or what causes the sensitivity and the extent of activity and concentration of the child with the knowledge and the weight and birth of the child to extract the bady mass index BMI

An objective criterion to determine nutritional status of a child is through measurement of height, mass and mid-upper-arm circumference (please refer 'Manual for Obtaining Anthropometric Measurements' http://www.ngds-ku.org/ngds_folder/M02.pdf ). A method to mathematical determine nutritional (now divided into 10 categories) is available in:

Validation of Concept of Optimal Mass in Children and Adults — The Seventh-Generation Solution of Childhood Obesity

http://www.ngds-ku.org/Papers/J52.pdf

You can add some questions related to past and present condition from their parents. Then taken some parameters like anthropometric measurements (height, weight, MUAC), deficiency and finally observation...

Through a questionnaire that contains a set of questions, the mother answers these questions and takes the height and weight to extract the body mass index

@ Afraa Ibrahim: No link to article provided

The following might be useful:

NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AGED 8-12 YEARS IN DEPRIVED AREAS OF MAURITIUS Aurisinkala-Appadoo S , Oogarah-Pratap B and A Ruggoo

Volume 13 No. 4 September 2013

African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development

Hello faraz,

Pour évaluer le statut nutritionnel d'un enfant, il faudra établir une suite de question pour lesquelles vous attribuez un code au questionnaire avec anonymat, ensuite une suite de question sur les données sociales, économiques, démographiques de la mère, des questions sur l'alimentation de l'enfant, une grille de collecte des données anthropometriques de l'enfant et enfin prévoir un volet pour les suggestions de la mère en fonction des attentes de l'étude. Merci

Food behaviours, attitudes, environments and knowledge are related to professionals in childhood fatness prevention, as are dietary patterns which endorse positive energy balance

Through surveys and preparation of a questionnaire that includes questions about the food consumed by the child as well as a weekly schedule to record the type and quantity of food intake and dietary habits of the child and the pattern of food followed, and after the registration of information analyzed statistically and the extraction of interconnections

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Probably would be better to calculates de BMI (body mass index) to properly assess this question

Nutritional assessment is an integral part of optimal pediatric care

@Luis Rodrigo: BMI would give only obesity condition and that in adults, scale not valid for children. Use estimated-adult BMI in children (heights and masses replaced by estimated-adult values):

Kamal, S. A. and S. S. Jamil (2012). A method to generate Growth-and-Obesity Profiles of children of still-growing parents. International Journal of Biology and Biotechnology, 9 (3): 233-255, full text:

http://www.ngds-ku.org/Papers/J30.pdf

For a proper categorization of nutritional status (now split into 10 categories) from measurements of height and mass, please see:

Kamal, S. A., N. Jamil and S. A. Ansari (2018). Validation of concept of optimal mass in children and adults — the seventh-generation solution of childhood obesity. International Journal of Biology and Biotechnology, 15 (4): 613-638, full text: http://www.ngds-ku.org/Papers/J52.pdf

By preparing a questionnaire that includes several questions and paragraphs that measure the object to be studied and relate to several relevant variables

Useful contribution

See if this can help you:

http://www.crn1.org.br/images/teses/imc_crianca.pdf

A special validated about nutrition survey would be an useful tool to use

It is very useful

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The nutrition type and situation of the child should also checked periodically .

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You can assess child nutritional status by using a questionaire including subjective(caregiver reporting) and objective(anthropometric measurements: height-for-age, weight-for-age and weight-for-height). Use standards for interpretation of results.

Regarding the feeding assessment, you can use questions about feeding(did the child eat....(KIND OF FOOD*). A) in the last 12 hours B) in the last 24 hours C) in the last 7 days ..etc. This time frame helps you to avoid or minimize recal bias. Please refer for the timing standards.

*And be advised that you have to include all catagories of foods: carbohydrates, protein, Vit&min, water, vegies and, breast feeding and/or bottle feeding.

The Food and Nutrition Service administers deal with some programs. These program supply healthy food to children which help fight hunger and obesity .

Detailed dietary history. Clinical examination and anthropometric measurements as well as biochemical investigations (serum iron, fersolate, transferrin, protein and other micronutrients like zinc)