The revised Healthy Purchase Index (r-HPI): a validated tool for exploring the nutritional quality of household food purchases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Healthy Purchase Index (HPI) assesses the nutritional quality of food purchases (FP) from food group expenditure shares only. However, it was developed from the FP of a disadvantaged population.

Objective

To adapt and validate the HPI for a general population.

Methods

FP were obtained from a representative sample of French households (Kantar WorldPanel) subdivided into two subsamples. The first sample (n = 4375) was used to adapt and validate the score; the second sample (n = 2188) was used to test external validity. The revised-HPI (r-HPI) includes 2 subscores: the diversity subscore and the quality subscore. Diversity subscore points were awarded when expenditure shares were above the 25th percentile for 5 food groups ("Fruits", "Vegetables", "Starche

SUBMITTER: Perignon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9899728 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature