Evaluation of the Healthy Eating Food Index (HEFI)-2019 measuring adherence to Canada’s Food Guide 2019 recommendations on healthy food choices.
Published in Appl Physiol Nutr Metab, 2022
The objective of this study was to evaluate the construct validity and reliability of the Healthy Eating Food Index-2019 (HEFI-2019)
The HEFI-2019 scoring algorithm is available on my GitHub page. The “official” version is a SAS macro, but I also provide an adaptation coded in R. Feel free to suggest improvements to the R version!I have also published an example application in SAS of the HEFI-2019 using dietary intake data from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 2015 - Nutrition. The example shows how to prepare CCHS data file, classify foods according to the HEFI-2019 categories, calculate sum, calculate mean HEFI-2019 scores as well as how to apply more sophisticated methods to derive distribution of HEFI-2019 score based on usual intakes.
Recommended citation: Brassard D, Elvidge Munene LA, St-Pierre S, et al. Evaluation of the Healthy Eating Food Index (HEFI)-2019 measuring adherence to Canada's Food Guide 2019 recommendations on healthy food choices. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 2022. doi:10.1139/apnm-2021-0416
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