Dietary adequacy among urban and semi‐rural schoolchildren in Gaza

Systematic review of diet quality indices and their associations with health‐related outcomes in children and adolescents

“… Guthrie & Scheer () are cited as the original authors for the Dietary Adequacy Score by Shatenstein et al . (); however, the paper was not available for review. …”

“…The scoring of these indices were based on the assumption that a diet with adequate variety of food groups or food items was more likely to be nutritionally adequate (Hatloy et al, 1998). A number of tools (Shatenstein et al, 1996;Mpontshane et al, 2008;Enneman et al, 2009;Emond et al, 2010) were designed or implemented with no assessment made of validity (Table 2). Food categories reported in these studies were often arbitrary, reflecting local judgement related to regional foods of importance (Mpontshane et al, 2008) and, in some studies, no explanation was given regarding food categorisation (Eckhardt et al, 2005;Rah et al, 2010).…”

Diet quality indices and their associations with health-related outcomes in children and adolescents: an updated systematic review

“…These adaptions reflected changes to the scoring system to be more applicable to different countries or age groups. Four identified DQIs were designed for adults and subsequently used among children and adolescents without being adapted [ 89 , 106 , 127 , 250 ].…”

“… Not specified No Finnish Children Healthy Eating Index (FCHEI); Kyttälä et al (2014) [ 104 ] Food & nutrient Finland 1) 3-d food records Reflects adherence to the Nordic dietary guidelines [ 101 ] 5 components, scored according to food groups and ages, points awarded and summed for a total score of 0–34/41/42 depending on age. Not specified Yes Dietary Adequacy Score (DAS); Guthrie et al (1981) [ 105 ] Food Unknown 1) 24 h recall; 2) FFQ Reflects adequacy of (unknown) Recommended Dietary Allowances for an unknown population 4 components, scored 0–16, points awarded & summed Not specified No Dietary Adequacy Score (DAS); Shatenstein et al (1996) [ 106 ] Gaza 1) FFQ Reflects adequacy of Recommended American Dietary Guidelines [ 44 ] PANDiet score; Developed by Verger et al (2012) among ≥18y, Verger et al (2016) [ 107 ] Food & nutrient UK 1) 24-h recal Reflects adequate nutrient intake based on UK dietary guidelines [ 108 ] 2 components (adequacy and moderation) are calculated, and the mean of the two sub-scores are then calculated ranging from 0 to 100. Infants & young children (12-18 m) Yes PANDiet score; Schoen et al (2017) [ 109 ] Food & nutrient Germany 1) 3-d weighed food record Reflects adherence to national reference values for nutrient intake in children based on UK dietary reference values [ 110 ].…”