Nida Shaikh, Ph.D.

 Nutrition Assistant Professor

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I.  General Research Interests 

  1. The role of diet in chronic diseases specially obesity, diabetes, and mental health disorders 
  2. Development and evaluation of nutrition assessment instruments 
  3. Nutrition Transition 
  4. Microbiome 
  5. mhealth  

II.  Current Research Projects 

  1. Drivers of Food Choice in the Indian Households 
  2. Evaluation of the reproducibility and validity of a Nutrition-Transition Food Frequency Questionnaire for adults in South India 
  3. Relationship between dietary behaviors and cardio-metabolic and depressive outcomes: the INtegrating DEPrEssioN and Diabetes TreatmENT (INDEPENDENT) study 

III.  Research Skills 

  1. Diet Assessment
    a.  Development and evaluation of diet assessment instruments 
      i.  24-Hour Dietary Records 
      ii.  Three-Day Food Records 
      iii.  Food Frequency Questionnaires 
    b.  Development and evaluation of dietary indices 
  2. Diet Analysis 
    a.  Dietary patterns: factor analysis, principal component analysis 
    b.  Food     based analyses/software 
  3. Anthropometric measurements 
    a.  Measuring height, weight, BMI, waist circumference, hip circumference, skin calipers 
  4. Data collection 
    a.  Interviewer training and management 
    b.  Study design  
    c.  Participant recruitment 
  5. Data management  
    a.  MS Access  
  6. Survey research methods 
    a.  Survey development 
    b.  Survey pre-testing 
    c.  Survey pilot testing  
  7. Quantitative research methods 
    a.  Statistical software:  
      i.  SAS 
      ii.  STATA 
  8. Qualitative research methods 
    a.  Cognitive interviews 
    b.  Semi-structured interviews 
    c.  Focus group discussion 
    d.  Anthropological methods:  
      i.  Freelisting 
      ii.  Pile sorts