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Diet Quality Indices Used in Australian and New Zealand Adults: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diet Quality Scores, Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current obesity reports · 2024Pooled it
- Evaluation of Dietary Patterns and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2021Pooled it
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- Diet Quality and Weight Gain Among Women in the Aboriginal Family Birthing Program in South Australia.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Development and Construct Validation of a Food-Based Diet Quality Score Using Image-Based Food Records.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic Factors Associated With Diet Quality in Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Australian Study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Maternal and Child Diet Quality Trajectories and Their Determinants.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- The health quality of the diet and selected health indicators of Polish e-sports players.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Validity and reliability of the Malaysian Healthy Diet Online Survey (MHDOS) for assessing diet quality in Malaysian adults.Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Dietary Habits in Early Pregnancy in a Multi-Ethnic Population: Results from the PROMOTE Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Looking Beyond Nutrients, How to Assess Diet Quality in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Population-A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Development of the Australian Dietary Guidelines Adherence Tool (ADG-AT): A Food Matching Protocol.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Associations between maternal diet quality in pregnancy and infant feeding practices.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Selected Determinants of Diet Health Quality among Female Athletes Practising Team Sports.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Review of Diet Quality Indices that can be Applied to the Environmental Assessment of Foods and Diets.Current nutrition reports · 2024Review
- The association between diet quality and chrononutritional patterns in young adults.European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- International diet quality index and revised diet quality index relationship with type 2 diabetes disease: a case-control study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Associations between Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Sensory Impairments among Chinese Older Adults: Based on the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey.Gerontology · 2024Article
- A scoping review of approaches used to develop plant-based diet quality indices.Current developments in nutrition · 2023Article
- Personality Determinants of Diet Health Quality among an Elite Group of Polish Team Athletes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Distilling the complexity of overall diet into a simple measure or summative score by data reduction methods has become a common practice in nutritional epidemiology. Recent reviews on diet quality indices (DQI) have highlighted the importance of sound construction criteria and validation. The aim of this current review was to identify and critically appraise all DQI used within Australian and New Zealand adult populations. Twenty-five existing DQI were identified by electronic searching in Medline and hand searching of reference lists. DQI were constructed based on the respective national dietary guidelines and condition-specific recommendations. For preferable features of DQI, six captured the dimensions of adequacy, moderation and balance; five had a nested structure; 12 consisted of foods, food groups and nutrients; 11 used metric scoring systems and most of those with metric scales used normative cutoff points. Food frequency questionnaires, either alone or with other methods, were the most common dietary assessment method used in 20 DQI. For evaluation of DQI, construct validity and relative validity are reported. Based on our critical appraisal, Dietary Guideline Index (DGI), Dietary Guideline Index-2013 (DGI-2013), Total Diet Score (TDS), Healthy Eating Index for Australian Adults-2013 (HEIFA-2013), and Aussie-Diet Quality Index (Aussie-DQI) were the preferred DQI used in Australian adults according to dimension, indicator selection, scoring criteria and evaluation. Further work is needed to enhance the construction of all Australian and New Zealand DQI, especially in terms of dimension and structure, for alignment with recommended construction criteria.
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