- Title
- Adaptation, acceptability and feasibility of a short food survey to assess the dietary intake of children during attendance at childcare
- Creator
- Grady, Alice; Fielding, Alison; Golley, Rebecaa K.; Finch, Meghan; Hendrie, Gilly A.; Burrows, Tracy; Seward, Kirsty; Lecathelinais, Christophe; Yoong, Sze Lin
- Relation
- NHMRC.1102943 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1102943
- Relation
- Public Health Nutrition Vol. 23, Issue 9, p. 1484-1494
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S136898001900404X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Objective: To (i) describe the adaptation of the Short Food Survey (SFS) for assessing the dietary intake of children (2–5 years) during attendance at Early Childhood Education and Care (SFS-ECEC); (ii) determine the acceptability and feasibility of the SFS-ECEC; and (iii) compare the SFS-ECEC to direct observations for assessing dietary intake of children in care. Design: The adapted forty-seven-item SFS-ECEC was completed by childcare educators to capture individual child’s usual intake over the past month. Acceptability and feasibility were assessed via educator self-report and completion rates. Mean servings of food groups consumed in accordance with dietary guidelines reported in the SFS-ECEC were compared to those obtained by a single-day direct observation via visual estimation conducted by trained personnel. Mean differences, intra-class correlations, Bland–Altman plots, percentage agreement and Cohen’s κ were examined. Setting: Early Childhood Education and Care, NSW, Australia. Participants: Educators and children. Results: 213 (98·61 %) SFS-ECECs were returned. Acceptability was high with 86·54 % of educators reporting the tool as easy to understand. Mean differences in servings of food groups between the SFS-ECEC and direct observation were statistically significantly different for five out of six foods and ranged 0·08–1·07, with intra-class correlations ranging 0·00–0·21. Agreement between the methods in the classification of children meeting or not meeting dietary guidelines ranged 42·78–93·01 %, with Cohen’s κ ranging −0·03 to 0·14. Conclusions: The SFS-ECEC is acceptable and feasible for completion by childcare educators. While tool refinement and further validation is warranted, small mean differences suggest the tool may be useful in estimating group-level intakes.
- Subject
- nutrition; child; food intake; childcare; educators; validity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1420073
- Identifier
- uon:37538
- Identifier
- ISSN:1368-9800
- Rights
- © The Authors 2020. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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