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Capturing health and eating status through a Nutritional Perception Screening Questionnaire (NPSQ9) in a randomised internet-based Personalised Nutrition intervention: the Food4Me study

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San-Criostobal, Rodrigo 
Navas-Carretero, Santiago 
Celis-Morales, Carlos 
O'Donovan, Clare 
Forster, Hannah 
Woolhead, Clara 
Walsh, Marianne C. 
Gibney, Eileen R. 
Brennan, Lorraine 
Gibney, Michael J. 
et al. 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9149
Date Issued
11 December 2017
Date Available
08T12:39:18Z January 2018
Abstract
Background: National guidelines emphasize healthy eating to promote wellbeing and prevention of non-communicable diseases. The perceived healthiness of food is determined by many factors affecting food intake. A positive perception of healthy eating has been shown to be associated with greater diet quality. Internet-based methodologies allow contact with large populations. Our present study aims to design and evaluate a short nutritional perception questionnaire, to be used as a screening tool for assessing nutritional status, and to predict an optimal level of personalisation in nutritional advice delivered via the Internet. Methods: Data from all participants who were screened and then enrolled into the Food4Me proof-of-principle study (n = 2369) were used to determine the optimal items for inclusion in a novel screening tool, the Nutritional Perception Screening Questionnaire-9 (NPSQ9). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed on anthropometric and biochemical data and on dietary indices acquired from participants who had completed the Food4Me dietary intervention (n = 1153). Baseline and intervention data were analysed using linear regression and linear mixed regression, respectively. Results: A final model with 9 NPSQ items was validated against the dietary intervention data. NPSQ9 scores were inversely associated with BMI (β = −0.181, p < 0.001) and waist circumference (Β = −0.155, p < 0.001), and positively associated with total carotenoids (β = 0.198, p < 0.001), omega-3 fatty acid index (β = 0.155, p < 0.001), Healthy Eating Index (HEI) (β = 0.299, p < 0.001) and Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS) (β = 0. 279, p < 0.001). Findings from the longitudinal intervention study showed a greater reduction in BMI and improved dietary indices among participants with lower NPSQ9 scores. Conclusions: Healthy eating perceptions and dietary habits captured by the NPSQ9 score, based on nine questionnaire items, were associated with reduced body weight and improved diet quality. Likewise, participants with a lower score achieved greater health improvements than those with higher scores, in response to personalised advice, suggesting that NPSQ9 may be used for early evaluation of nutritional status and to tailor nutritional advice.
Sponsorship
European Commission - Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
Other Sponsorship
"la Caixa" Banking Foundation
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
BioMed Central
Journal
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Volume
14
Issue
168
Copyright (Published Version)
2017 the Authors
Keywords
  • Food4Me

  • Personalised nutritio...

  • Survey

  • Healthy Eating Index

  • Mediterranean Diet Sc...

  • NPSQ9

  • Nutritional status

DOI
10.1186/s12966-017-0624-6
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1479-5868
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
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