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Record W4409264703 · doi:10.1101/2025.04.02.25325112

Leveraging questionnaire-based physical activity levels (PAL) to identify energy intake misreporting using the Goldberg method: A doubly labeled water validation study

2025· preprint· en· W4409264703 on OpenAlexafffund
Heather K. Neilson, Shervin Asgari, Janet A. Tooze, Farah Khandwala, Anita Koushik, Rémi Rabasa‐Lhoret, Karen Kopciuk, Ilona Csizmadi

Bibliographic record

VenuemedRxiv · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicNutritional Studies and Diet
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityUniversity of CalgaryMontreal Clinical Research InstituteMcGill University Health CentreAlberta Cancer Foundation
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCancer Research Institute
KeywordsEnergy (signal processing)Physical activityComputer scienceWater intakePsychologyEnvironmental scienceStatisticsMathematicsWater resource managementPhysical medicine and rehabilitationMedicine

Abstract

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ABSTRACT The Goldberg method has been suggested for identifying energy intake (EI) under-reporting in nutritional epidemiology. Its implementation, however, is limited by challenges associated with estimating physical activity levels (PAL). We quantified the accuracy of the Sedentary Time and Activity Reporting Questionnaire (STAR-Q) derived PAL (PAL STAR-Q ) combined with the Goldberg method (Goldberg-PAL STARQ ) to identify EI misreporting as compared with doubly labeled water (DLW) derived total energy expenditure (TEE DLW ). Between 2009 and 2011, 99 men and women completed a two-week DLW protocol, a food frequency questionnaire, and the STAR-Q. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV) and accuracy of the Goldberg-PAL STAR-Q were determined. Fifty-eight percent of men and women were classified as under-reporters by Goldberg-PAL STAR-Q compared with 60% of men and 56% of women by TEE DLW . Among men, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV and accuracy and 95% confidence intervals were 88% (68%-97%), 87% (61%-98%), 91% (72%-99%), 81% (56%-94%), and 87% (72%-95%), respectively; and among women 79% (62%-90%), 69% (50%-84%), 77% (60%-88%), 72% (52%-86%), and 75% (62%-84%), respectively. Validated individual level PALs used with the Goldberg method can be informative in sensitivity analyses to gain insight into EI misreporting in nutritional epidemiology studies lacking in objective EI measures.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.019
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.984
Threshold uncertainty score0.082

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.019
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.106
GPT teacher head0.412
Teacher spread0.307 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
DomainMethods
GenreEmpirical

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