Validation of a new scoring approach of a child dietary questionnaire for use in early childhood among low-income, Latino populations

Table 4 Diet measures summary and validity at 13-month time point (n = 71)

	Spearman correlation^a	P value	Child Diet Quality Index^b	HEI^b
Totals: Child Diet Quality Index & HEI	0.37	0.001	45.0 (42.9, 47.1)	68.6 (61.4, 76.2)
Subcomponents: Child Diet Quality Index & HEI
Total vegetables	0.43	< 0.001	11.7 (6.8, 16.9)	2.3 (1.5, 3.5)
Greens and Beans	0.47	< 0.001	11.4 (5.7, 20.0)	3.3 (0.2, 5.0)
Total fruits	0.32	0.006	25.0 (12.5, 30.4)	5.0 (3.7, 5.0)
Whole fruits	0.31	0.009	20.0 (20.0, 40.0)	5.0 (3.7, 5.0)
Whole grains	0.12	0.326	17.1 (12.9, 21.4)	7.5 (4.5, 10.0)
Dairy	0.43	0.000	16.3 (10.9, 21.2)	10.0 (8.1, 10.0)
Total protein foods	-0.06	0.611	12.3 (9.2, 17.1)	5.0 (4.4, 5.0)
Seafood and plant proteins	0.22	0.067	10.1 (7.1, 16.7)	4.1 (1.1, 5.0)
Fatty acids	-0.09	0.461	14.3 (0.0, 14.3)	2.5 (0.8, 5.2)
Sodium	0.05	0.660	91.9 (89.0, 95.8)	6.6 (4.2, 8.4)
Refined grains	0.16	0.182	83.8 (77.9, 87.1)	7.2 (4.2, 9.3)
Added sugars	0.38	0.001	85.7 (81.6, 90.5)	8.5 (6.3, 10.0)
Saturated fats	0.28	0.017	91.5 (86.9, 95.1)	8.1 (6.6, 9.8)

^a Values are Spearman’s rank correlations between the total child diet quality index and the Healthy Eating Index, as well as between each subcomponent of both scores
^b Values are median (Q1, Q3) for the total child diet quality index and Healthy Eating Index totals and subcomponents

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