Development and implications of a revised Canadian Healthy Eating Index (HEIC-2009)

作者：Woodruff Sarah J^*; Hanning Rhona M

来源：Public Health Nutrition, 2010, 13(6): 820-825.

DOI：10.1017/S1368980009993120

• Diet quality
• Nutritional assessment

Objective: The purpose was to update the Healthy Eating Index-C (HEI-C) with Canada's new food guide recommendations (HEIC-2009) and compare scores and ratings among a small sample of grade 6 students.
Design: Updates to the HEI-C were completed with Canada's new food guide recommendations for daily number of servings. HEI-C and HEIC-2009 scores were computed for a small sample (n405) of grade 6 students utilizing nutrition data that were collected using the Food Behaviour Questionnaire, a validated web-based dietary assessment tool (including a 24 h dietary recall, FFQ, and food and physical activity behavioural questions).
Setting: Data were collected in fifteen schools in the Region of Waterloo District School Board, Ontario, Canada.
Subjects: A total of 405 students (48% males and 52 A% females) from grade 6 classrooms completed the web-based survey.
Results: The index scores revealed that participants scored higher (74.5 v. 69.6, P<0.001) using the HEIC-2009 compared with the NET-C, even though both index scores are rated in the 'needs improvement' category (HEIC-2009, 75%; HEI-C, 71%). A small group of participants (n14), who were previously rated (using the HEI-C) in the 'poor' category, were rated in the 'needs improvement' category using the HEIC-2009 (chi(2) =589.647, df=4, P<0.001).
Conclusions: The HEIC-2009 has the potential to be used as a population-level diet quality index in Canada.

• 出版日期2010-6