Development and Evaluation of a Diet Quality Index for Preschool-Aged Children in an Asian population: The Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diet quality indexes are useful tools to measure diet quality because they compare dietary intakes against recommendations. A dietary quality index for Asian preschool-aged children is lacking.

Objective

The aims of this study were to develop and evaluate a dietary quality index for preschool-aged children (ie, the DQI-5) based on Singapore dietary recommendations and to examine diet quality in a cohort of 5-year-old children. An additional aim was to assess associations between sociodemographic characteristics and DQI-5 scores.

Design

A secondary analysis was conducted using dietary intake of children from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes mother-offspring cohort assessed in 2015-2016 using a validated food frequency questionnaire. The s

SUBMITTER: Rolands MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7614080 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature