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Exploring the Validity of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS): A Cross-National Study in Seven European Countries around the Mediterranean Region
This study provides comprehensive validation of the 14-item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (14-MEDAS) in an adult population from Greece (GR), Portugal (PT), Italy (IT), Spain (SP), Cyprus (CY), Republic of North Macedonia (NMK), and Bulgaria (BG). A moderate association between the 14-MEDAS...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7601687/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32992649 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12102960 |
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author | García-Conesa, María-Teresa Philippou, Elena Pafilas, Christos Massaro, Marika Quarta, Stefano Andrade, Vanda Jorge, Rui Chervenkov, Mihail Ivanova, Teodora Dimitrova, Dessislava Maksimova, Viktorija Smilkov, Katarina Ackova, Darinka Gjorgieva Miloseva, Lence Ruskovska, Tatjana Deligiannidou, Georgia Eirini Kontogiorgis, Christos A. Pinto, Paula |
author_facet | García-Conesa, María-Teresa Philippou, Elena Pafilas, Christos Massaro, Marika Quarta, Stefano Andrade, Vanda Jorge, Rui Chervenkov, Mihail Ivanova, Teodora Dimitrova, Dessislava Maksimova, Viktorija Smilkov, Katarina Ackova, Darinka Gjorgieva Miloseva, Lence Ruskovska, Tatjana Deligiannidou, Georgia Eirini Kontogiorgis, Christos A. Pinto, Paula |
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description | This study provides comprehensive validation of the 14-item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (14-MEDAS) in an adult population from Greece (GR), Portugal (PT), Italy (IT), Spain (SP), Cyprus (CY), Republic of North Macedonia (NMK), and Bulgaria (BG). A moderate association between the 14-MEDAS and the reference food diary was estimated for the entire population (Pearson r = 0.573, p-value < 0.001; Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) = 0.692, p-value < 0.001) with the strongest correlation found in GR, followed by PT, IT, SP, and CY. These results were supported by kappa statistics in GR, PT, IT, and SP with ≥50% of food items exhibiting a fair or better agreement. Bland–Altman analyses showed an overestimation of the 14-MEDAS score in the whole population (0.79 ± 1.81, 95%Confidence Interval (CI) 0.61, 0.96), but this value was variable across countries, with GR, NMK, and BG exhibiting the lowest bias. Taking all analyses together, the validation achieved slightly better results in the Mediterranean countries but a definitive validation ranking order was not evident. Considering growing evidence of the shift from Mediterranean Diet (MD) adherence and of the importance of culture in making food choices it is crucial that we further improve validation protocols with specific applications to measure and compare MD adherence across countries and to relate it to the health status of a specific population. |
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spelling | pubmed-76016872020-11-01 Exploring the Validity of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS): A Cross-National Study in Seven European Countries around the Mediterranean Region García-Conesa, María-Teresa Philippou, Elena Pafilas, Christos Massaro, Marika Quarta, Stefano Andrade, Vanda Jorge, Rui Chervenkov, Mihail Ivanova, Teodora Dimitrova, Dessislava Maksimova, Viktorija Smilkov, Katarina Ackova, Darinka Gjorgieva Miloseva, Lence Ruskovska, Tatjana Deligiannidou, Georgia Eirini Kontogiorgis, Christos A. Pinto, Paula Nutrients Article This study provides comprehensive validation of the 14-item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (14-MEDAS) in an adult population from Greece (GR), Portugal (PT), Italy (IT), Spain (SP), Cyprus (CY), Republic of North Macedonia (NMK), and Bulgaria (BG). A moderate association between the 14-MEDAS and the reference food diary was estimated for the entire population (Pearson r = 0.573, p-value < 0.001; Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) = 0.692, p-value < 0.001) with the strongest correlation found in GR, followed by PT, IT, SP, and CY. These results were supported by kappa statistics in GR, PT, IT, and SP with ≥50% of food items exhibiting a fair or better agreement. Bland–Altman analyses showed an overestimation of the 14-MEDAS score in the whole population (0.79 ± 1.81, 95%Confidence Interval (CI) 0.61, 0.96), but this value was variable across countries, with GR, NMK, and BG exhibiting the lowest bias. Taking all analyses together, the validation achieved slightly better results in the Mediterranean countries but a definitive validation ranking order was not evident. Considering growing evidence of the shift from Mediterranean Diet (MD) adherence and of the importance of culture in making food choices it is crucial that we further improve validation protocols with specific applications to measure and compare MD adherence across countries and to relate it to the health status of a specific population. MDPI 2020-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7601687/ /pubmed/32992649 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12102960 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article García-Conesa, María-Teresa Philippou, Elena Pafilas, Christos Massaro, Marika Quarta, Stefano Andrade, Vanda Jorge, Rui Chervenkov, Mihail Ivanova, Teodora Dimitrova, Dessislava Maksimova, Viktorija Smilkov, Katarina Ackova, Darinka Gjorgieva Miloseva, Lence Ruskovska, Tatjana Deligiannidou, Georgia Eirini Kontogiorgis, Christos A. Pinto, Paula Exploring the Validity of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS): A Cross-National Study in Seven European Countries around the Mediterranean Region |
title | Exploring the Validity of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS): A Cross-National Study in Seven European Countries around the Mediterranean Region |
title_full | Exploring the Validity of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS): A Cross-National Study in Seven European Countries around the Mediterranean Region |
title_fullStr | Exploring the Validity of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS): A Cross-National Study in Seven European Countries around the Mediterranean Region |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Validity of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS): A Cross-National Study in Seven European Countries around the Mediterranean Region |
title_short | Exploring the Validity of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS): A Cross-National Study in Seven European Countries around the Mediterranean Region |
title_sort | exploring the validity of the 14-item mediterranean diet adherence screener (medas): a cross-national study in seven european countries around the mediterranean region |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7601687/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32992649 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12102960 |
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