Simulated adaptations to an adult dietary self-report tool to accommodate children: impact on nutrient estimates.

Objective: To simulate the effect of child-friendly (CF) adaptations of the National Cancer Institute's Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Recall (ASA24) on estimates of nutrient intake.Method: One hundred twenty children, 8–13 years old, entered their previous day's intake using the ASA24 and completed an interviewer-administered recall using the Nutrition Data System for Research (NDSR). Based on a hypothesis that proposed adaptations to the ASA24 will not significantly affect mean nutrient estimates, ASA24 data were manipulated postadministration to simulate a CF version in which 2 categories of data collection were removed: (1) foods not likely to be consumed by children (45%) based on previous analyses of national dietary data and (2) food detail questions (probes) to which children are unlikely to know the answers (46%), based on our experience.Results: Mean estimates of select nutrients between the beta version of ASA24 and the simulated CF recall showed no significant differences, indicat...