Nutrition literacy predicts adherence to healthy/unhealthy diet patterns in adults with a nutrition-related chronic condition.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the relationship between adherence to distinct dietary patterns and nutrition literacy.

Design

We identified distinct dietary patterns using principal covariates regression (PCovR) and principal components analysis (PCA) from the Diet History Questionnaire II. Nutrition literacy was assessed using the Nutrition Literacy Assessment Instrument (NLit). Cross-sectional relationships between dietary pattern adherence and global and domain-specific NLit scores were tested by multiple linear regression. Mean differences in diet pattern adherence among three predefined nutrition literacy performance categories were tested by ANOVA.

Setting

Metropolitan Kansas City, USA.

Participants

Adults (n 386) with at least one of four diet-related diseases.

SUBMITTER: Taylor MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6827561 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature