King's College London Low Income Diet Nutrition Study (LIDNS)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA LIDNS
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: King's College London Low Income Diet Nutrition Study (LIDNS)
Date(s)	: 2003-2005
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 27 boxes, 2.7 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	: King's College London | Department of Nutrition and Dietetics

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey (LIDNS) was commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and was carried out by three organisations; the Health Research Group at the National Centre for Social Research, the Nutritional Sciences Research Division at King's College London and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Royal Free and University College London Medical School. The survey evaluated eating habits, nourishment and nutrition-related health of people on low income and had many aims.

These aims include providing information concerning food and nutrient intakes; to measure health-related factors associated with diet, such as height, weight and blood pressure; to measure levels of physical activity; to analyse smoking and oral health in relation to diet and to evaluate relationships between diet and the risk of developing diseases.

3,728 people from 2,477 low-income households were included in the survey, having been identified as being within the bottom 15% of the population in terms of material deprivation. Research data was collected via interviews and questionnaires, 24-hour recalls of diet, physical measurements and blood samples. Dr Michael Nelson, senior lecturer at King's College London was Principal Investigator in the national survey of diet in low income households; operations staff, principal programmers and data managers were also based at King's College London. The results were published within Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey Summary of Key Findings, 2007.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Low Income Diet Nutrition Study, 2003-2005, comprises research data used within Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey, 2007. The collection, 27 boxes, comprises research data booklets for each partcipant, 2003-2005, arranged by ascending ID number and titled 'Social and resource influences on eating habits, food consumption record: individual 24 hour recall'; these ID numbers represent participants who completed 4 days of 24 hour recalls.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in its accession order, as above.

Conditions governing access:

Administrative records are generally closed for 30 years except for published material.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids exist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred to King's College London College Archives by the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2007.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Nelson M, Erens B, Bates B, Church S and Boshier T, Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey, (London The Stationary Office, 2007).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
January 2008