- Title
- Diet quality indices used in australian and new zealand adults: a systematic review and critical appraisal
- Creator
- Hlaing-hlaing, Hlaing; Pezdirc, Kristine; Tavener, Meredith; James, Erica L.; Hure, Alexis
- Relation
- Nutrients Vol. 12, Issue 12, no. 3777
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12123777
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Distilling the complexity of overall diet into a simple measure or summative score by data reduction methods has become a common practice in nutritional epidemiology. Recent reviews on diet quality indices (DQI) have highlighted the importance of sound construction criteria and validation. The aim of this current review was to identify and critically appraise all DQI used within Australian and New Zealand adult populations. Twenty-five existing DQI were identified by electronic searching in Medline and hand searching of reference lists. DQI were constructed based on the respective national dietary guidelines and condition-specific recommendations. For preferable features of DQI, six captured the dimensions of adequacy, moderation and balance; five had a nested structure; 12 consisted of foods, food groups and nutrients; 11 used metric scoring systems and most of those with metric scales used normative cutoff points. Food frequency questionnaires, either alone or with other methods, were the most common dietary assessment method used in 20 DQI. For evaluation of DQI, construct validity and relative validity are reported. Based on our critical appraisal, Dietary Guideline Index (DGI), Dietary Guideline Index-2013 (DGI-2013), Total Diet Score (TDS), Healthy Eating Index for Australian Adults-2013 (HEIFA-2013), and Aussie-Diet Quality Index (Aussie-DQI) were the preferred DQI used in Australian adults according to dimension, indicator selection, scoring criteria and evaluation. Further work is needed to enhance the construction of all Australian and New Zealand DQI, especially in terms of dimension and structure, for alignment with recommended construction criteria.
- Subject
- adults; dietary assessment; diet quality; evaulation; index; systematic review; validity; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1433176
- Identifier
- uon:39175
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-6643
- Rights
- © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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