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

• Published in: Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism Vol. 48; no. 8; pp. 620 - 633
• Main Authors: Hutchinson, Joy M, Dodd, Kevin W, Guenther, Patricia M, Lamarche, Benoit, Haines, Jess, Wallace, Angela, Perreault, Maude, Williams, Tabitha E, Louzada, Maria Laura da Costa, Jessri, Mahsa, Lemieux, Simone, Olstad, Dana Lee, Prowse, Rachel, Simpson, Janis Randall, Vena, Jennifer E, Szajbely, Kathleen, Kirkpatrick, Sharon I
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada NRC Research Press 01.08.2023; Canadian Science Publishing NRC Research Press
• Subjects: Evaluation; Food; Food habits; Health aspects; Medical screening; Validation studies; Validity; Canada; questionnaire; construct validity; dietary guidance; diet quality; food choices; usual intake; dietary assessment; Healthy Eating Food Index-2019; screener; Canada’s food guide
• ISSN: 1715-5312; 1715-5320
• DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2023-0018

The Canadian Food Intake Screener was developed to rapidly assess alignment of dietary intake with the Canada's Food Guide-2019 healthy food choices recommendations. Scoring is aligned with the Healthy Eating Food Index-2019 to the extent possible. Among a sample of adults, reasonable variation in screener scores was noted, mean screener scores differed between some subgroups with known differences in diet quality, and a moderate correlation between screener scores and total Healthy Eating Food Index-2019 scores based on repeat 24 h dietary recalls was observed. The Canadian Food Intake Screener has moderate construct validity for rapid assessment of overall alignment of adults' dietary intake with the Canada's Food Guide-2019 healthy food choices recommendations.