School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia.
Int J Obes (Lond). 2010 Jul;34(7):1103-15. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2009.241. Epub 2009 Nov 24.
Dietary intake throughout childhood is a key determinant of growth and development and has an important role in both the prevention and treatment of childhood overweight and obesity. Although dietary intake assessment is fraught with challenges and limitations, reporting intake remains an important research outcome if dietary recommendations to promote healthy weight are to be refined. The aims of this paper are to review current dietary intake assessment methodologies for children, to identify their biases and provide guidance on how these can be addressed to improve reporting of dietary intakes of overweight children in the literature and to identify future research priorities. Knowledge of the methodological aspects of studies examining dietary intake a priori in the context of obesity will assist researchers in improving the quality of dietary data collected and reported and facilitate publication of both dietary intake and nutrition outcomes in the context of body weight. This will help to develop a strong evidence base against which to evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition interventions for both the prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity.
儿童时期的饮食摄入是生长发育的关键决定因素，对儿童超重和肥胖的预防和治疗都有重要作用。尽管饮食摄入评估充满了挑战和局限性，但如果要完善促进健康体重的饮食建议，报告摄入量仍然是一个重要的研究结果。本文的目的是回顾目前用于儿童的饮食摄入评估方法，确定其偏差，并提供如何解决这些偏差的指导，以改善超重儿童文献中饮食摄入量的报告，并确定未来的研究重点。了解肥胖背景下预先研究饮食摄入的方法学方面，将有助于研究人员提高所收集和报告的饮食数据的质量，并促进饮食摄入和营养结果在体重背景下的发表。这将有助于建立一个强有力的证据基础，以此评估营养干预措施在预防和治疗儿童肥胖方面的有效性。
