Laurel Edmunds
Development and validation of the Day in the Life Questionnaire (DILQ) as a measure of fruit and vegetable questionnaire for 7-9 year olds
day life questionnaire dilq developed supervised classroom exercise measure childrens consumption fruit vegetablesthe dilq uses words pictures encourage child recall describe range activities previous day including entire food intakethis study tested validity reliability dilq children aged 79 years n 255 four english schoolsreliability validity sensitivity change assessed repeated rounds data collectioncomparisons made observations school breaks classroom completion dilqchildren enjoyed completing dilq teachers thought appropriate age groupthe questionnaire performed either well acceptably validity reliability sensitivity teststhe dilq recommended method collecting data fruit vegetable consumption children aged 79 classroomthe validation study included comparison schools without fruit breaktime policies sensitivity brief intervention free fruit distributed morning breakthe results suggest would sensitive measure descriptive studies studies controlled trials