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The Canadian Food Intake Screener for assessing alignment of adults' dietary intake with the 2019 Canada's Food Guide healthy food choices recommendations: scoring system and construct validity Joy M. Hutchinson, Kevin W. Dodd, Patricia M. Guenther, Benoît Lamarche, ..., Sharon I. Kirkpatrick Read the paper |
The Canadian Food Intake Screener/Questionnaire court canadien sur les apports alimentaires was developed to rapidly assess alignment of adults’ dietary intake over the past month with the 2019 Canada’s Food Guide’s healthy food choices recommendations. From July to December 2021, adults (n = 154) aged 18–65 years completed the screener and up to two 24 h dietary recalls. The screener scoring system was aligned with the Healthy Eating Food Index-2019 (HEFI-2019), to the extent possible. Analysis of variance compared screener scores among subgroups with known differences in diet quality. Using the recall data, the National Cancer Institute multivariate method was used to model HEFI-2019 components, with the screener score as a covariate, and the correlation coefficient between screener and total HEFI-2019 scores was estimated. The mean screener score was 35 points (SD = 4.7; maximum 65), ranging from 26 (1st percentile) to 45 (99th percentile). Differences in scores in hypothesized directions were evident by gender identity (p = 0.06), perceived income adequacy (p = 0.07), education (p = 0.02), and smoking status (p = 0.003). The correlation between screener and HEFI-2019 scores was 0.53 (SE = 0.12). The screener’s moderate construct validity supports its use for rapid assessment of alignment of adults’ intake with the healthy food choices recommendations when comprehensive dietary assessment is not possible.
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Research interests: dietary assessment methods, health equity, dietary patterns, nutritional epidemiology, household food insecurity, nutrition policy and promotion
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- Hutchinson JM, Kirkpatrick SI, Wallace MP, Dodd KW. A comparison of methods to adjust risk models for measurement error in dietary exposures. American Society for Nutrition Annual Conference. 2022.
- Lamarche B, Brassard D, Hutchinson JM, Williams T, Haines J, Martin A, Perreault M. How to use newly developed research tools to measure food choices and eating behaviours based on the 2019 Canada’s Food Guide. Canadian Nutrition Society webinar. 2022.
- Lamarche B, Brassard D, Kirkpatrick S, Hutchinson JM, Haines J, Wallace A. Developing tools to measure adherence to Canada’s Food Guide 2019. Canadian Nutrition Society Annual Conference. 2021.
- Hutchinson JM, Tarasuk V. The relationship between adults’ dietary intakes and food insecurity status in Canada: implications for future population assessment. International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods. 2021.
- Hutchinson JM, Tarasuk V. The diet quality of food-insecure Canadians is worse in 2015 than 2004. Canadian Nutrition Society Conference, 2019. Oral Competition Finalist.
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- 2021-2024: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- 2021-2024: University of Waterloo President's Graduate Scholarship
- 2020: University of Waterloo Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women
- 2019: Christine Gagnon Memorial Travel Award
- 2018: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- 2017: Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canada Graduate Scholarship
- 2017: Betty Isobel MacKay Award
- 2017: University of Toronto Fellowship
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- Conference Planning Committee Member and Peer Review Committee Lead, Research and Practice in Health Sciences Conference (2022-present)
- Peer Mentorship Coordinator, School of Public Health Sciences Graduate Student Association (2021 - Present)
- Nutritionist, Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Health Canada (2021 - 2022)
- Registered Dietitian, McMaster University Medical Centre (2020 - 2021)
- Member in Good Standing, College of Dietitians of Ontario (2017 – Present)