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The Influence Of Dietary Restraint, Social Desirability, And Food Type On Accuracy Of Reported Dietary Intake, Ashlee Hirt Schoch
The Influence Of Dietary Restraint, Social Desirability, And Food Type On Accuracy Of Reported Dietary Intake, Ashlee Hirt Schoch
Masters Theses
Underreporting in dietary assessment has been linked to dietary restraint (DR) and social desirability (SD). Thus, this study investigated accuracy of reporting energy intake (EI) of a laboratory meal during a 24-hour dietary recall (24HR) in 38 healthy, college-aged (20.3 +/- 1.7 years), normal-weight women (22.4 +/- 1.8 kg/m2), categorized as high or low in DR and SD.
Participants consumed a meal (sandwich wrap, chips, fruit, and ice cream) and completed a telephone 24HR. Accuracy of reported intake = (((reported intake - measured intake)/measured intake) x 100) [positive numbers = overreporting].
Overreporting of EI was found in all groups (meal …