Understanding the Variation within a Dietary Guideline Index Score to Identify the Priority Food Group Targets for Improving Diet Quality across Population Subgroups
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
Identifying the Diet Guideline Index Components Most in Need of Intervention
3. Results
3.1. Sample Characteristics
3.2. Overall Distribution of the Low Scoring Components
3.3. Combinations of Low Scoring Components
4. Discussion
4.1. Strengths and Limitations
4.2. Implications and Future Research
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Position in Sequence | Diet Quality Component | Assigned Value |
---|---|---|
1 | Discretionary choices | 1 |
2 | Dairy | 0 |
3 | Healthy fats | 0 |
4 | Vegetables | 1 |
5 | Fruit | 1 |
6 | Variety | 0 |
7 | Grains | 0 |
8 | Meat | 0 |
9 | Beverages | 0 |
Dietary pattern sequence | 10,011,000 |
Characteristic | Categories | n | % |
---|---|---|---|
Total sample | 230,575 | 100.0 | |
Gender | Male | 112,457 | 48.8 |
Female | 118,118 | 51.2 | |
Age group | 18–30 years | 52,643 | 22.8 |
31–50 years | 80,927 | 35.1 | |
51–70 years | 68,036 | 29.5 | |
71+ years | 28,969 | 12.6 | |
Weight status | Underweight | 4779 | 2.1 |
Healthy weight | 104625 | 45.4 | |
Overweight | 75,297 | 32.7 | |
Obesity | 45,874 | 19.9 | |
Diet quality score | Below average b | 115,866 | 50.3 |
Average or above average | 114,709 | 49.7 | |
Low scoring components | Discretionary choices | 183,220 | 79.5 |
Healthy fats | 166,364 | 72.2 | |
Dairy | 163,171 | 70.8 | |
Vegetables | 103,638 | 44.9 | |
Fruit | 95,409 | 41.4 | |
Grains | 46,244 | 20.1 | |
Meat | 36,070 | 15.6 | |
Variety | 29,514 | 12.8 | |
Beverages | 7118 | 3.1 |
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Hendrie, G.A.; Lyle, G.; Mauch, C.E.; Haddad, J.; Golley, R.K. Understanding the Variation within a Dietary Guideline Index Score to Identify the Priority Food Group Targets for Improving Diet Quality across Population Subgroups. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 378. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020378
Hendrie GA, Lyle G, Mauch CE, Haddad J, Golley RK. Understanding the Variation within a Dietary Guideline Index Score to Identify the Priority Food Group Targets for Improving Diet Quality across Population Subgroups. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(2):378. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020378
Chicago/Turabian StyleHendrie, Gilly A., Greg Lyle, Chelsea E. Mauch, Joyce Haddad, and Rebecca K. Golley. 2021. "Understanding the Variation within a Dietary Guideline Index Score to Identify the Priority Food Group Targets for Improving Diet Quality across Population Subgroups" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2: 378. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020378