How to find information on national food and nutrient consumption surveys across Europe: systematic literature review and questionnaires to selected country experts are both good strategies
| Autor: | Lourdes Ribas-Barba, Garden Tabacchi, Trudy M. A. Wijnhoven, Alicia Garcia-Alvarez, Lluis Serra-Majem, Mirjana Gurinovic, Maria Blanquer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Search methodology
030309 nutrition & dietetics Best practice Food consumption MEDLINE Medicine (miscellaneous) European projects Eating 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Environmental protection Surveys and Questionnaires Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Socioeconomics Free trade National nutrition surveys 2. Zero hunger Consumption (economics) 0303 health sciences Nutrition and Dietetics Feeding Behavior Nutrition Surveys Europe Nutrition Assessment Geography Systematic review Christian ministry Objective information |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Nutrition |
| Popis: | The present research was conducted within the framework of the EURopean micronutrient RECommendations Aligned project. In order to identify the best practice in assessing nutrient intakes, a search strategy for collecting data from national food consumption surveys/studies in Europe was developed. Systematic literature searches were carried out on twenty-eight European and the four European Free Trade Association countries. A questionnaire was also sent to two to five experts in each country. Systematic reviews using PubMed yielded 12 703 abstracts that were reduced to 200 studies using inclusion and exclusion criteria. Similarly, a search of ministry web sites yielded 3033 hits, and subsequently reduced to nine surveys. Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom were the countries with most data and Slovenia and Liechtenstein were those with the least. Seventy-eight expert questionnaires were obtained from all countries except for Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Slovakia. Detailed results and references are given. A systematic search and questionnaires are equally good at identifying national surveys across countries. Literature searching provides globally accessible and objective information albeit limited, whereas the questionnaire provides information that, depending upon responders, can be more complete. A combination of both strategies is recommended. |
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