Correction to: Validity and reliability of a dish-based semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire for assessment of energy and nutrient intake among Iranian adults

Correction to: BMC Res Notes (2020) 13:95 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-04944-3

Unfortunately, the authors’ final corrections only reached us following the publication of the original article [1].

The below have now been updated in the original article:

• 1. The word ‘and’ has been removed from the last sentence of the first paragraph of the ‘Introduction’.

• 2. FFQs has been amended to DFFQs in the last paragraph of the ‘Statistical analysis’.

• 3. FFQ has been amended to DFFQs in the fifth paragraph of the ‘Results’.

• 4. ‘On average were correctl classified…’ has been amended to ‘On average 73% were correctly classified…’ in the sixth paragraph of the ‘Results’.

• 5. The duplicate ‘in two ways’ has been removed from the first paragraph of the ‘Discussion’.

• 6. The fourth paragraph of the ‘Discussion’ has been corrected to read: “…The reported correlations are similar to those obtained in other similar validation studies. According to a study carried out in Chile the values ranged between 0.26 and 0.47 [35]. In another study in Colombia reported correlations ranged between 0.18 and 0.38 in urban areas and between 0.00 and 0.31 in rural areas [12]…”

• 7. The title Dr. has been added to the names of Hasan Ein-Zinab, Azadeh Nikoosaleh and Hamid Rasekhi in the ‘Acknowledgements’ section.

• 8. Reference 25 has been corrected to read: Amini M, et al. Development of a dish-based semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire for Iranian population. Med J Islam Repub Iran. in press (accepted 18 Aug 2019).