- Title
- Validity of the Australian recommended food score as a diet quality index for pre-schoolers
- Creator
- Burrows, Tracy L.; Collins, Kate; Watson, Jane; Guest, Maya; Boggess, May M.; Neve, Melinda; Rollo, Megan; Duncanson, Kerith; Collins, Clare E.
- Relation
- Nutrition Journal Vol. 13
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-13-87
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Background: Diet quality tools provide researchers with brief methods to assess the nutrient adequacy of usual dietary intake. This study describes the development and validation of a pediatric diet quality index, the Australian Recommended Food Scores for Pre-schoolers (ARFS-P), for use with children aged two to five years. Methods: The ARFS-P was derived from a 120-item food frequency questionnaire, with eight sub-scales, and was scored from zero to 73. Linear regressions were used to estimate the relationship between diet quality score and nutrient intakes, in 142 children (mean age 4 years) in rural localities in New South Wales, Australia. Results: Total ARFS-P and component scores were highly related to dietary intake of the majority of macronutrients and micronutrients including protein, β-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin A. Total ARFS-P was also positively related to total consumption of nutrient dense foods, such as fruits and vegetables, and negatively related to total consumption of discretionary choices, such as sugar sweetened drinks and packaged snacks. Conclusion: ARFS-P is a valid measure that can be used to characterise nutrient intakes for children aged two to five years. Further research could assess the utility of the ARFS-P for monitoring of usual dietary intake over time or as part of clinical management.
- Subject
- diet quality index; food frequency questionnaire; pre-schoolers; nutritional adequacy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1060604
- Identifier
- uon:16799
- Identifier
- ISSN:1475-2891
- Rights
- This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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