This page links to some files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

DietSys User's Guide

The entire DietSys User's Guide is available for download as a self extracting zip file. Save the file to your hard drive and run the UGUIDE.EXE program to extract the PDF files. Individual sections may be downloaded below. Changes to the software since version 3.0 are documented in README.TXT, a text file installed with the software. All files are presented in PDF format.

Title Section

Cover and Table of Contents 1
Overview of the Health Habits and History Questionnaire
Introduction to the Health Habits and History Questionnaire 2
Description and Justification of HHHQ Areas of Inquiry 3
Introduction to the Diet Segment of the HHHQ 4
Data Collection and Data Management 5
NCI Sample Questionnaire & Codebook
Sample Questionnaire (SCAN92) 7
Codebook for SCAN92 Data Files 7
Making Changes to the Questionnaire
Developing Your Own Questionnaire 10
DietSys Configuration File 11
DietSys Foods Database 12
DietSys Data Entry
Creating Questionnaire Data Files 13
Processing the Questionnaire Data
DietSys Edit Checking Feature 14
How to Analyze Data Files Using DietSys 15
DietSys Analysis Algorithms 16
Analysis Results File - Codebook 17
DietSys Analysis Report 18
DietSys Scores for Non-dietary Factors (Health Indices) 19
System Defaults & Questionnaire Utilities 20
References 21

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18 Sep 2006
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