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Development and Evaluation of the Dietary Pattern Calculator (DiPaC) for Personalized Assessment and Feedback
Document Type
Report
Source
Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research. March, 2024, Vol. 85 Issue 1, p25, 7 p.
Subject
Canada
Language
English
ISSN
1486-3847
Abstract
This study aimed to develop and validate a diet assessment screener-the Dietary Pattern Calculator (DiPaC). A scoping review identified currently available short diet quality assessment tools. Twenty-one articles covering 19 unique tools were included. The current tools mainly focused on individual nutrients or food groups or were developed for a specific population, and few ascertained overall dietary patterns. The 24-hour dietary recalls from the nationally representative Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)-Nutrition 2015 (n = 13,958) were used to derive and validate a personalized dietary pattern informed by the scoping review using weighted partial least squares. The dominant dietary pattern in CCHS-Nutrition 2015 was characterized by high consumption of fast foods, carbonated drinks, and salty snacks and low consumption of whole fruits, orange vegetables, other vegetables and juices, whole grains, dark green vegetables, legumes, and soy. The dietary pattern assessment was used to create and evaluate DiPaC following an agile and user-centred research and development approach. DiPaC, which demonstrated high validity and intermediate reliability (internal consistency = 0.47-0.51), is publicly available at https://www.projectbiglife.ca/. DiPaC can be used by the public, clinicians, and researchers for quick and robust assessment of diet quality, providing immediate feedback with the advantage of being easy to implement. Keywords: dietary patterns, web-based calculator, Canadian population, partial least squares, diet quality, short dietary assessment screeners. (DOI: 10.3148/cjdpr-2023-013) Published at dcjournal.ca on 12 October 2023 Cette etude visait a elaborer et a valider un outil d'evaluation de l'alimentation, la Dietary Pattern Calculator [Calculatrice des habitudes alimentaires] (DiPaC). Un examen de la portee a permis d'identifier les outils d'evaluation de la qualite de l'alimentation courts actuellement disponibles. Vingt et un articles couvrant 19 outils uniques ont ete inclus. Les outils actuels sont principalement axes sur des nutriments ou des groupes alimentaires individuels ou ont ete crees pour une population particuliere, et peu d'entre eux permettent de determiner les modeles alimentaires globaux. Les rappels alimentaires de 24 heures de l'Enquete sur la sante dans les collectivites canadiennes (ESCC) - Nutrition de 2015 (n = 13,958), representative a l'echelle nationale, ont ete utilises pour deriver et valider un modele alimentaire personnalise fonde sur l'examen de la portee a l'aide des moindres carres partiels ponderes. Le modele alimentaire dominant dans l'ESCC - Nutrition de 2015 etait caracterise par une consommation elevee de repas-minute, de boissons gazeifiees et de collations salees et par une faible consommation de fruits entiers, de legumes orange, d'autres legumes et jus, de grains entiers, de legumes vert fonce, de legumineuses et de soya. L'evaluation des modeles alimentaires a ete utilisee pour creer et evaluer la DiPaC a l'aide d'une approche de recherche et developpement agile et centree sur l'utilisateur. La DiPaC, qui a demontre une validite elevee et une fiabilite intermediaire (coherence interne = 0,47-0,51), est accessible au public au https://www.projectbiglife.ca/. La DiPaC peut etre utilisee par le public, les cliniciens et les chercheurs pour evaluer rapidement et avec precision la qualite de l'alimentation et obtenir des resultats immediats. De plus, l'outil est facile a mettre en oeuvre. Mots-cles : modeles alimentaires, calculatrice Web, population canadienne, moindres carres partiels, qualite de l'alimentation, outils d'evaluation de l'alimentation courts. (DOI: 10.3148/cjdpr-2023-013) Publie au dcjournal.ca le 12 octobre 2023
INTRODUCTION Dietary patterns, defined as "the quantities, proportions, variety or combinations of different foods and beverages in diets, and the frequency with which they are habitually consumed" [1], consider the [...]