Effectiveness of Prompts on Fourth-Grade Children–s Dietary Recall Accuracy Depends on Retention Interval and Varies by Gender

Baxter, Suzanne Domel; Smith, Albert F.; Hitchcock, David B.; Guinn, Caroline H.; Royer, Julie A.; Collins, Kathleen L.; Smith, Alyssa L.; Puryear, M.P.; Vaadi, K.K.; Finney, Christopher J.; Miller, Patricia H.

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“…A previous publication describes estimation for the validation study’s sample sizes and results for food item and kcal accuracy measures 21 along with details about the design, sample, data collection, and quality control; 21 this section summarizes the latter information. The University of South Carolina Institutional Review Board approved the study.…”

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“…For the current article, data from a cross-sectional validation study 21 of children’s reports of school-provided meals in 24-hour recalls were used to investigate hypotheses about reporting accuracy for amounts eaten (expressed in terms of kcal inaccuracy or “inaccuracy”) with the reporting-error-sensitive approach. The validation study 21 was designed to investigate the combined influence of retention interval and prompts on fourth-grade children’s dietary recall accuracy.…”

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“…The validation study 21 was designed to investigate the combined influence of retention interval and prompts on fourth-grade children’s dietary recall accuracy. Retention interval is the time between the meals to be reported and the recall.…”

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“…Specifically, inaccuracy for amounts eaten will be smaller for the short than for the long retention interval. The retention interval part of Hypothesis 3 was based on results from numerous studies 15,21–23,25,26 with third-, fourth-, or fifth-grade children which showed that their item accuracy in reports of school meals during 24-hour recalls was better with the short than long retention interval. No specific hypotheses were made for inaccuracy for amounts eaten as a function of prompts or sex.…”

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Fourth-Grade Children’s Reporting Accuracy for Amounts Eaten at School-Provided Meals: Insight from a Reporting-Error-Sensitive Analytic Approach Applied to Validation Study Data

Baxter¹,

Hitchcock²,

Royer³

et al. 2016

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Background Validation studies that have directly assessed reporting accuracy for amounts eaten have provided results in various ways. Objective To analyze amount categories of a reporting-error-sensitive approach for insight concerning reporting accuracy for amounts eaten. Design For a cross-sectional validation study, children were observed eating school-provided breakfast and lunch, and randomized to one of eight 24-hour recall conditions (two retention intervals [short; long] crossed with four prompts [forward; meal-name; open; reverse]). Participants/setting Data collected during three school years (2011–2012 to 2013–2014) on 455 children from ten schools (four districts) in a southern USA state. Main outcome measures Items were classified as matches [observed and reported], omissions [observed but unreported], or intrusions [unobserved but reported]. Within amount categories (matches [corresponding, over-reported, under-reported], intrusions [over-reported], omissions [under-reported]), item-amounts were converted to kilocalories. Statistical analyses performed A multilevel model was fit with food-level explanatory variables (amount category, meal) and child-level explanatory variables (retention interval, prompt, sex, race/ethnicity). T-tests on three contrasts investigated inaccuracy differences. Results Inaccuracy differed by amount category (P<0.001; largest to smallest—omission, intrusion, under-reported match, over-reported match), meal (P=0.01; larger for breakfast), retention interval (P=0.003; larger for long), sex (P=0.004; larger for boys), race/ethnicity (P=0.045; largest for non-Hispanic Whites), and amount category-×-meal interaction (P=0.046). Over-reported amounts were larger for intrusions than over-reported matches (P<0.0001). Under-reported amounts were larger for omissions than under-reported matches (P<0.0001). Overall under-reported amounts (from omissions and under-reported matches) exceeded overall over-reported amounts (from intrusions and over-reported matches) (P<0.003). Conclusions Amount categories provide a standard way to analyze validation-study data on reporting accuracy for amounts eaten, and compare results across studies. Multilevel analytic models reflecting the data structure are recommended for inference. To enhance reporting accuracy for amounts eaten, focus on increasing reports of correct items, thereby yielding more matches with fewer intrusions and omissions.

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Fourth-Grade Children’s Reporting Accuracy for Amounts Eaten at School-Provided Meals: Insight from a Reporting-Error-Sensitive Analytic Approach Applied to Validation Study Data

Baxter¹,

Hitchcock²,

Royer³

et al. 2016

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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“…Data were collected during the pilot-study phase (spring, 2011) of a multi-year dietary reporting validation study with fourth-grade children 15 from all 6 fourth-grade classes at 2 schools in a metropolitan school district in South Carolina. The University of South Carolina’s Institutional Review Board provided approval.…”

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Test-Retest Reliability of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey's 5-Item Food Insecurity Questionnaire Completed by Fourth-Grade Children

Baxter

Smith

Hitchcock

et al. 2015

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

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Objective To examine test-retest reliability and internal consistency of a 5-question food insecurity survey used in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Methods Researchers administered the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in the classroom to 92 fourth-grade children (74 African American; 48 girls) in 2 sessions 27–30 days apart in spring, 2011. Each classroom administration lasted 5–10 minutes. Results Test-retest reliability was 0.66 (Kendall tau), which is modest. Internal consistency (Cronbach alpha) was .67 and .70 for respective administrations. Food insecurity scores were related to gender (adjusted P = .05) and academic achievement (adjusted P = .004) but not to socioeconomic status or body mass index percentile (binomial regression). On average, boys reported higher food insecurity than girls. Children with lower academic achievement scores reported higher food insecurity than children with higher academic achievement scores. Conclusions and Implications The National Health and Nutrition Examination 5-question survey may be group administered to assess food insecurity efficiently as reported by individual fourth-grade children.

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Fourth-grade children's dietary reporting accuracy by meal component: Results from a validation study that manipulated retention interval and prompts

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We examined reporting accuracy by meal component (beverage, bread, breakfast meat, combination entrée, condiment, dessert, entrée, fruit, vegetable) with validation-study data on 455 fourth-grade children (mean age = 9.92 ± 0.41 years) observed eating school meals and randomized to one of eight dietary recall conditions (two retention intervals [short, long] crossed with four prompts [forward, meal-name, open, reverse]). Accuracy category (match [observed and reported], omission [observed but unreported], intrusion [unobserved but reported]) was a polytomous nominal item response variable. We fit a multilevel cumulative logit model with item variables meal component and serving period (breakfast, lunch) and child variables retention interval, prompt and sex. Significant accuracy category predictors were meal component (p < 0.0003), retention interval (p < 0.0003), meal-component × serving-period (p < 0.0003) and meal-component × retention-interval (p = 0.001). The relationship of meal component and accuracy category was much stronger for lunch than breakfast. For lunch, beverages were matches more often, omissions much less often and intrusions more often than expected under independence; fruits and desserts were omissions more often. For the meal-component × retention-interval interaction, for the short retention interval, beverages were intrusions much more often but combination entrées and condiments were intrusions less often; for the long retention interval, beverages were matches more often and omissions less often but fruits were matches less often. Accuracy for each meal component appeared better with the short than long retention interval. For lunch and for the short retention interval, children’s reporting was most accurate for entrée and combination entrée meal components, whereas it was least accurate for vegetable and fruit meal components. Results have implications for conclusions of studies and interventions assessed with dietary recalls obtained from children.

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Effectiveness of Prompts on Fourth-Grade Children–s Dietary Recall Accuracy Depends on Retention Interval and Varies by Gender

Cited by 6 publications

References 50 publications

Fourth-Grade Children’s Reporting Accuracy for Amounts Eaten at School-Provided Meals: Insight from a Reporting-Error-Sensitive Analytic Approach Applied to Validation Study Data

Fourth-Grade Children’s Reporting Accuracy for Amounts Eaten at School-Provided Meals: Insight from a Reporting-Error-Sensitive Analytic Approach Applied to Validation Study Data

Test-Retest Reliability of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey's 5-Item Food Insecurity Questionnaire Completed by Fourth-Grade Children

Fourth-grade children's dietary reporting accuracy by meal component: Results from a validation study that manipulated retention interval and prompts

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