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Prototype Notebook: Short Questions on Dietary Intake, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors By Heather Hartline-Grafton, Rebecca Nyman, Ronette Briefel, and Rhoda Cohen, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. ERS project representatives: Joanne Guthrie and Eileen Stommes E-FAN No. (04010) 171 pp, September 2004 This report provides a compendium of 128 survey questions used in previous research to assess dietary knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors for low-income populations over the age of 18. The short questions or sets of questions on nine topics, including fruits and vegetables; grains, legumes, and fiber; variety; fat; calcium food sources; nonalcoholic beverages; knowledge, attitudes; and behaviors, are drawn from an extensive inventory and evaluation of available questions reported in the research literature. Each question is presented using a common template including the citations, data sources, and characteristics such as question reliability, validity, sensitivity to change, availability in other languages, mode of administration, use in populations with low-income and/or low-education levels, relation to nutrition and health outcomes, and availability of comparative data. This report is part of a larger ERS research effort to develop a common core set of questions to assess the dietary behavior impact of Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE) on Food Stamp Program participants. Keywords: Diet and health knowledge, Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program, FSNE, Food Stamp Program, low-income populations, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, FANRP, ERS, USDA In this report ... Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Abstract, Contents, Executive Summary, 168 kb Prototype Notebook, 63 kb Recommended Questions Fruits and Vegetables, 166 kb Grains, Legumes, and Fiber, 172 kb Variety, 148 kb Fat, 184 kb Calcium Food Sources, 111 kb Nonalcoholic Beverages, 163 kb Knowledge, 116 kb Attitudes, 80 kb Behaviors, 63 kb Appendix A: Instruments Inventoried and Question Topic Areas, 49 kb Appendix B: Instruments Reviewed But Not Inventoried, 25 kb Appendix C: Glossary of Terms Used in the Notebook Template, 41 kb Appendix D: Instruments with Questions That Were Not Ranked, 16 kb Appendix E: Citations, 29 kb Entire Document, 1,877 kb web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov page updated: September 13, 2004

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