RESEARCH on the CONTINUING SURVEY of FOOD INTAKES by INDIVIDUALS Form

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[Music] Dietary assessment is part of the first step in the nutrition care process and that includes measuring dietary intake and this video focuses on the problems of methods for doing that now the starting point for completing a dietary assessment is to measure intake to question that seems nonsensical yet asking individuals to provide self-report so dietary intake has been labeled useless pseudoscience come one researcher stated it was the equivalent of saying that the Titanic had a flotation problems we humans are quite bad at estimating or measuring our dietary intake which leads to inaccurate values in our assessment these impactive values are referred to as measurement errors the formal definition for this is the difference between the value obtained from a measure and the true value of a parameter measurement errors can be either random or systematic and can come from both the respondent the person who's giving the dietary information and the interviewer the person who's askin