Design and development of an instrument to measure overall lifestyle habits for epidemiological research: the Mediterranean Lifestyle (MEDLIFE) index

Public Health Nutrition - Tập 18 Số 6 - Trang 959-967 - 2015
Mercedes Sotos‐Prieto1,2, Belén Moreno‐Franco3, José M. Ordovás1,4, Montse León5, José A. Casasnovas5, José L. Peñalvo1
1Department of Epidemiology, Atherothrombosis, and Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain
2International SHE Foundation, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
3Department of Medicine, Psychiatry and Dermatology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
4Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer–USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
5Cardiovascular Research Unit, Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (I + CS), Zaragoza, Spain

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AbstractObjectiveTo design and develop a questionnaire that can account for an individual’s adherence to a Mediterranean lifestyle including the assessment of diet and physical activity patterns, as well as social interaction.DesignThe Mediterranean Lifestyle (MEDLIFE) index was created based on the current Spanish Mediterranean food guide pyramid. MEDLIFE is a twenty-eight-item derived index consisting of questions about food consumption (fifteen items), traditional Mediterranean dietary habits (seven items) and physical activity, rest and social interaction habits (six items). Linear regression models and Spearman rank correlation were fitted to assess content validity and internal consistency.SettingA subset of participants in the Aragon Workers’ Health Study cohort (Zaragoza, Spain) provided the data for development of MEDLIFE.SubjectsParticipants (n 988) of the Aragon Workers’ Health Study cohort in Spain.ResultsMean MEDLIFE score was 11·3 (sd 2·6; range: 0–28), and the quintile distribution of MEDLIFE score showed a significant association with each of the individual items as well as with specific nutrients and lifestyle indicators (intra-validity). We also quantified MEDLIFE correspondence with previously reported diet quality indices and found significant correlations (ρ range: 0·44–0·53; P<0·001) for the Alternate Healthy Eating Index, the Alternate Mediterranean Diet Index and Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener.ConclusionsMEDLIFE is the first index to include an overall assessment of lifestyle habits. It is expected to be a more holistic tool to measure adherence to the Mediterranean lifestyle in epidemiological studies.

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