British National Food Survey

THE NATIONAL Food Survey of Great Britain.

It is just 10 years since the Society devoted two full meetings to the subject of budgetary and dietary surveys. In the intervening period a further full meeting has been held in Dublin for the purpose of discussing the Irish National Nutrition Survey. But this is the first occasion on which it has been possible to present to the Society a connected series of papers covering various aspects of ...

A national food and nutrition survey project.

Smoking and musculoskeletal disorders: findings from a British national survey.

OBJECTIVES To explore the relation between smoking habits and regional pain in the general population. METHODS A questionnaire was mailed to 21 201 adults, aged 16-64 years, selected at random from the registers of 34 British general practices, and to 993 members of the armed services, randomly selected from pay records. Questions were asked about pain in the low back, neck, and upper and low...

Mood Instability and Psychosis: Analyses of British National Survey Data

BACKGROUND We used British national survey data to test specific hypotheses that mood instability (1) is associated with psychosis and individual psychotic phenomena, (2) predicts the later emergence of auditory hallucinations and paranoid ideation, and (3) mediates the link between child sexual abuse and psychosis. METHODS We analyzed data from the 2000 and 2007 UK national surveys of psychi...

The National Food Consumption Survey (NFCS): South Africa, 1999.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the National Food Consumption Survey (NFCS) in South Africa was to determine the nutrient intakes and anthropometric status of children (1-9 years old), as well as factors that influence their dietary intake. DESIGN This was a cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative sample of all children aged 1-9 years in South Africa. A nationally representative sample wit...