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The WELL diet score correlates with the Alternative Healthy Eating index-2010
The nutritional quality of a consumed diet has been demonstrated to benefit individual health and well-being. However, assessment of diet quality can be an arduous, cumbersome undertaking. The Stanford Wellness Living Laboratory (WELL) conducted an online survey encompassing the WELL Diet Score (a 12-item novel dietary quality assessment), where participants filled an additional 127-item online Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) afterwards. In this study by Springfield et al. (2020), the authors compare the efficacy of the WELL Diet Score to the traditional FFQ-based Alternative Healthy Eating Index-2010 (AHEI-2010) in a population of 248 WELL participants. Analysis of the results revealed a significant interrelationship between the two assessment tools, and that the WELL diet score demonstrated a substantial positive relationship with sociodemographic factors that determined diet quality and with protective health factors (including older age, higher level of education, lower BMI and higher levels of physical activity). In short, the authors conclude that the WELL Diet Score, which requires a mere 5 minutes to complete, demonstrated a substantial positive relationship with AHEI-2010 scores that are based on the much longer 127-item FFQ, denoting that WELL Diet Score can be beneficial for large-scale studies and future WELL studies. [NPID: AHEI‐2010, FFQ, WELL, diet quality, survey measures]
Year: 2020
