THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF DATA FROM A FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE AMONGLOW-INCOME LATINA MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN

We examined the 3-month and 1-year reproducibility of mothers' and chi ldren's dietary intakes of calories and 11 nutrients derived from oral administrations of a food frequency questionnaire to 166 Latina women . One-year correlations generally ranged from 0.40 to 0.55 for both mo thers and children. For most nutrients, roughly half the children in t he highest (lowest) quartile of intake at baseline were also in the hi ghest (lowest) quartile 1 year later. The food frequency questionnaire has great potential for measuring typical nutrient intakes in these p opulations.