Development and validation testing of a short nutrition questionnaire to identify dietary risk factors in preschoolers aged 12-36 months.

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dc.contributor.authorRice, Niamh
dc.contributor.authorGibbons, Helena
dc.contributor.authorMcNulty, Breige A.
dc.contributor.authorWalton, Janette
dc.contributor.authorFlynn, Albert
dc.contributor.authorGibney, Michael J.
dc.contributor.authorNugent, Anne P.
dc.contributor.funderDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marineen
dc.contributor.funderHealth Research Boarden
dc.contributor.funderDanone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition, Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderDanone
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-01T16:41:43Z
dc.date.available2017-03-01T16:41:43Z
dc.date.issued2015-01-19
dc.date.updated2017-03-01T16:32:22Z
dc.description.abstractBackground: Although imbalances in dietary intakes can have short and longer term influences on the health of preschool children, few tools exist to quickly and easily identify nutritional risk in otherwise healthy young children. Objectives: To develop and test the validity of a parent-administered questionnaire (NutricheQ) as a means of evaluating dietary risk in young children (12–36 months). Design: Following a comprehensive development process and internal reliability assessment, the NutricheQ questionnaire was validated in a cohort of 371 Irish preschool children as part of the National Preschool Nutrition Survey. Dietary risk was rated on a scale ranging from 0 to 22 from 11 questions, with a higher score indicating higher risk. Results: Children with higher NutricheQ scores had significantly (p<0.05) lower mean daily intakes of key nutrients such as iron, zinc, vitamin D, riboflavin, niacin, folate, phosphorous, potassium, carotene, retinol, and dietary fibre. They also had lower (p<0.05) intakes of vegetables, fish and fish dishes, meat and infant/toddler milks and higher intakes of processed foods and non-milk beverages, confectionery, sugars and savoury snack foods indicative of poorer dietary quality. Areas under the curve values of 84.7 and 75.6% were achieved for ‘medium’ and ‘high’ dietary risk when compared with expert risk ratings indicating good consistency between the two methods. Conclusion: NutricheQ is a valid method of quickly assessing dietary quality in preschoolers and in identifying those at increased nutritional risk.en
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland and the Health Research Board (Food for Health Research Ireland initiative (2007-2012); Danone, Ireland (Danone Baby Nutrition)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationRice, N., Gibbons, H., McNulty, B. A., Walton, J., Flynn, A., Gibney, M. J. and Nugent, A. P. (2015) 'Development and validation testing of a short nutrition questionnaire to identify dietary risk factors in preschoolers aged 12–36 months', Food & Nutrition Research, 59(1), pp. 27912. doi:10.3402/fnr.v59.27912en
dc.identifier.doi10.3402/fnr.v59.27912
dc.identifier.endpage27912-12en
dc.identifier.issn1654-6628
dc.identifier.journaltitleFood & nutrition researchen
dc.identifier.startpage27912-1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3721
dc.identifier.volume59en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Openen
dc.rightsFood & Nutrition Research 2015. © 2015 Niamh Rice et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectPreschool childrenen
dc.subjectToddlersen
dc.subjectNutrient-poor dietsen
dc.subjectDietary qualityen
dc.subjectScreening toolsen
dc.subjectNutritional risken
dc.titleDevelopment and validation testing of a short nutrition questionnaire to identify dietary risk factors in preschoolers aged 12-36 months.en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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