FOURTH GRADERS’ REPORTS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE INTAKE AT SCHOOL LUNCH: DOES TREATMENT ASSIGNMENT AFFECT ACCURACY?

摘要

ObjectiveDietary interventions with children often use self-reported data to assess efficacy despite that objective methods rarely support self-report findings in validation studies. This study compared fourth graders’ self-reported to observed lunch fruit and vegetable intake to determine if the accuracy of self-reported intake varied by treatment condition