Development of the Penn Healthy Diet screener with reference to adult dietary intake data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a need for a feasible, user-friendly tool that can be employed to assess the overall quality of the diet in U.S.

Clinical settings

Our objectives were to develop the Penn Healthy Diet (PHD) screener, evaluate screener item correlations with Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2015 components, and develop a simple scoring algorithm.

Methods

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017-18 dietary recall data in adults were used to define food examples in screener food groups based on components of the HEI-2015, Diet Approach to Stop Hypertension, and Alternative Mediterranean diet approaches. Instrument Content Validity Index (I-CVI) was used to evaluate the clarity and relevance of the screener. Patient acceptability was evaluated by comple

SUBMITTER: Compher CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9670424 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature