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Children's Dietary Questionnaire

The Children's Dietary Questionnaire (CDQ) is a parent-proxy or child self-report food frequency questionnaire designed to assess usual dietary intake in children and adolescents aged 6–18 years. Developed by Rockett and colleagues at Harvard School of Public Health in the 1990s, it captures consumption of 60–120 common foods and beverages with frequency and portion size information. The CDQ enables estimation of daily energy, macronutrient, and micronutrient intakes and characterization of dietary patterns (e.g., prudent vs. Western diet).

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  1. Blum, R. E., Wei, E. K., Rockett, H. R., et al. (1999). Validation of a food frequency questionnaire in Native American and Caucasian children aged 9–18 years. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 3(3), 167–172. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022341807967
  2. Rockett, H. R., Wolf, A. M., & Colditz, G. A. (1995). Development and reproducibility of a food frequency questionnaire to assess diets of older children and adolescents. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 95(3), 336–340. DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8223(95)00086-0

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ScholarGateCDQ (Children's Dietary Questionnaire). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/public-health-nutrition/child-diet-questionnaire