A suggested approach for imputation of missing dietary data for young children in daycare.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parent-reported 24-h diet recalls are an accepted method of estimating intake in young children. However, many children eat while at childcare making accurate proxy reports by parents difficult.

Objective

The goal of this study was to demonstrate a method to impute missing weekday lunch and daytime snack nutrient data for daycare children and to explore the concurrent predictive and criterion validity of the method.

Design

Data were from children aged 2-5 years in the My Parenting SOS project (n=308; 870 24-h diet recalls). Mixed models were used to simultaneously predict breakfast, dinner, and evening snacks (B+D+ES); lunch; and daytime snacks for all children after adjusting for age, sex, and body mass index (BMI). From these models, we imputed the missin

SUBMITTER: Stevens J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4685296 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature