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Level: Basic

Description: 

Agriculture programs often seek to improve diet, but feasible standardized tools have not been available to measure diet quality. Especially for programs that have limited finances and technical capacity, dietary assessment must be low-burden: simple, rapid, reliable, and not requiring nutrition expertise. In this session, we demonstrate how a new diet quality questionnaire (DQQ) has been designed to capture information on nutrient adequacy, healthy and unhealthy food consumption, with a minimal amount of time (5 minutes) and nutrition expertise (none required). Standardized DQQs have been adapted and are ready to use for over 100 countries, available at dietquality.org. We will practice using these tools and calculating indicators of diet quality (such as the MDD-W) from them. DQQ data have been collected for 56 countries so far, and we will also practice using the data and exploring visualizations.

Preparation materials 

We recommend that you visit the resources prior to attending the session. 

• Global Diet Quality Project website
• Measuring what the world eats: Insights from a new approach.
• Introducing a Suite of Low-Burden Diet Quality Indicators That Reflect Healthy Diet Patterns at Population Level.

Speakers 

• Anna Herforth (DQQ)
• Kristina Sokourenko (DQQ)

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