Hi Rachel, another alternative is the STC:Diet, an an eight-item simplified food frequency instrument designed for use in primary care and health-promotion settings. It is in the public domain and available in English and Spanish.
Paxton AE1, Strycker LA, Toobert DJ, Ammerman AS, Glasgow RE. Starting the conversation performance of a brief dietary assessment and intervention tool for health professionals. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Jan;40(1):67-71. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2010.10.009.
Hi Rachel, hopefully you are aware of the emerging debate on the pseudo-scientific nature of food frequency questionnaires, 24-hour recalls, and other forms of memory-based dietary assessment methods. I published a large body of work (a few relevant papers attached w/references below) demonstrating that memory-based methods produce physiologically implausible and non-falsifiable (i.e., meaningless) data and should not be used in scientific research or to inform public policy.
In this work, I addressed 'diet-centrism', logical fallacies, reactivity, lying, false memories, forgetting, mis-estimation, pseudo-quantification, the invalidity of nutrient databases, the non-quantifiability of measurement error, and the fact that nutrition epidemiologists choose to remain ignorant of the escalating debate on ‘diet-centrism’ by refusing to read, acknowledge, or cite decades of rigorous contrary evidence.
Archer E, Lavie CJ, Hill JO. The Failure to Measure Dietary Intake Engendered a Fictional Discourse on Diet-Disease Relations. Frontiers in Nutrition. 2018;5(105).
link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2018.00105/full
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;104(December):113-124.
Article Controversy and Debate: Memory based Methods Paper 1: The Fa...
Archer E, Marlow ML, Lavie CJ. Controversy and Debate: Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Methods Paper #3. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2018;104(December):130-135.
Article Controversy and Debate: Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Meth...
Archer E, Lavie CJ, Hill JO. The Contributions of ‘Diet’, ‘Genes’, and Physical Activity to the Etiology of Obesity: Contrary Evidence and Consilience. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. 2018;60(July/August).
Article The Contributions of ‘Diet’, ‘Genes’, and Physical Activity ...
Archer E. In Defense of Sugar: A Critique of Diet-Centrism. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. 2018;61(1):10-19.
Article In Defense of Sugar: A Critique of Diet-Centrism
Archer E, Hand GA, Blair SN. Validity of U.S. Nutritional Surveillance: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey caloric energy intake data, 1971-2010. PLoS One. 2013;8(10):e76632.
Article Validity of U.S. Nutritional Surveillance: National Health a...
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.
Link: https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00319-5/fulltext
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding my work.
Best of luck,
Ed
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