Browsing Public Health Sciences (School of) by Author "Kirkpatrick, Sharon I."
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Accuracy of Parental Reporting of Preschoolers’ Dietary Intake Using an Online Self-Administered 24-h Recall
Wallace, Angela; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Darlington, Gerarda; Haines, Jess (MDPI, 2018-07-29)Parents are typically relied upon to report young children’s dietary intake. However, there has been limited research assessing the accuracy of such reports captured using novel dietary assessment tools. The purpose of the ... -
Advancing the evidence to improve the nutrition of populations: a refreshed vision and scope for Nutrition Journal
Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Collins, Clare E. (Springer, 2017-07)This editorial introduces a revised and refreshed scope for Nutrition Journal, one of BioMed Central’s open access journals. Diet is among the leading risk factors for morbidity and mortality globally [1]. This signals the ... -
Applying systematic review search methods to the grey literature: a case study examining guidelines for school-based breakfast programs in Canada
Godin, Katelyn Marina; Stapleton, Jackie; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Hanning, Rhona; Leatherdale, Scott T. (BioMedCentral, 2015-10-15)Grey literature is an important source of information for large-scale review syntheses. However, there are many characteristics of grey literature that make it difficult to search systematically. Further, there is no ... -
Assessing Dietary Outcomes in Intervention Studies: Pitfalls, Strategies, and Research Needs
Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Collins, Clare E.; Keogh, Ruth H.; Krebs-Smith, Susan M.; Neuhouser, Marian L.; Wallace, Angela (MDPI, 2018-07-31)To inform strategies to improve the dietary intakes of populations, robust evaluations of interventions are required. This paper is drawn from a workshop held at the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ... -
Assessment of Nutrient Intakes: Introduction to the Special Issue
Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Collins, Clare E. (MDPI, 2016-03-25)Accurately measuring consumption of food, drinks and supplements is fundamental to nutrition and health research, including surveillance, epidemiology and intervention studies. However, assessing food intake is an area ... -
Beverage consumption and energy intake among Canadians: analyses of 2004 and 2015 national dietary intake data
Jones, Amanda C.; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Hammond, David (BioMed Central, 2019-10-19)Background Among adults and children consuming Western diets, beverages are significant sources of free sugars, saturated fats, excess calories, and alcohol, with relevance to chronic disease risk. The impact of recent ... -
Can dietary guidelines support the transformation of food systems to foster human and planetary health?
Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Vanderlee, Lana; Dias, Goretty M.; Hanning, Rhona M. (UNSCN NUTRITION, 2019-07)There is substantial evidence of the need for efforts to drastically shift the food system to enable eating patterns consistent with human and planetary health. This will have implications for food production, processing, ... -
The Comparative Reliability and Feasibility of the Past-Year Canadian Diet History Questionnaire II: Comparison of the Paper and Web Versions
Lo Siou, Geraldine; Csizmadi, Ilona; Boucher, Beatrice A.; Akawung, Alianu K.; Whelan, Heather K.; Sharma, Michelle; Al Rajabi, Ala; Vena, Jennifer E.; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Koushik, Anita; Massarelli, Isabelle; Rondeau, Isabelle; Robson, Paula J. (MDPI, 2017-02-13)Advances in technology-enabled dietary assessment include the advent of web-based food frequency questionnaires, which may reduce costs and researcher burden but may introduce new challenges related to internet connectivity ... -
Comparison of recruitment and retention among demographic subgroups in a large diverse population study of diet
Alexander, Gwen L.; Dixit-Joshi, Sujata; Kushi, Lawrence H.; Coleman, Laura A.; Sundaram, Maria E.; Clancy, Heather A.; Groesbeck, Michelle; Potischman, Nancy A.; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Zimmerman, Thea P.; George, Stephanie M.; Subar, Amy F.; Thompson, Frances E. (Elsevier, 2017-06)Objective We examined the feasibility of conducting a longitudinal study of diet among diverse populations by comparing rates of response throughout recruitment and retention phases by demographic and other characteristics. ... -
Considerations for Dietary Assessment in the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project
Marcinow, Michelle L.; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Vena, Jennifer E.; Robson, Paula J. (Alberta's Tomorrow Project, 2018-04)Dietary factors are leading contributors to chronic disease and mortality globally and in Canada (1–3), and have been recognized as modifiable risk factors for certain cancers (4). However, much remains to be learned about ... -
Correction: Faught et al. “Socioeconomic Disadvantage across the Life Course is associated with Diet Quality in Young Adulthood” Nutrients, 2019, 11(2), 242
Faught, Erin L.; McLaren, Lindsay; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Hammond, David; Minaker, Leia M.; Raine, Kim D.; Olstad, Dana Lee (MDPI AG, 2019-08)We noticed an error in the text that requires correcting as it may contribute to an incorrect understanding of our study’s scientific conclusions. In the text accompanying Table 4 (Section 3.3: Mediation Analysis (Pathways ... -
Dietary assessment is a critical element of health research – Perspective from the Partnership for Advancing Nutritional and Dietary Assessment in Canada
Labonté, Marie-Ève; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Bell, Rhonda C.; Boucher, Beatrice A.; Csizmadi, Ilona; Koushik, Anita; L’Abbé, Mary R.; Massarelli, Isabelle; Robson, Paula J.; Rondeau, Isabelle; Shatenstein, Bryna; Subar, Amy F.; Lamarche, Benoît (Canadian Science Publishing, 2016-10)Challenges and complexities associated with assessing dietary intakes are numerous, but not insurmountable. This opinion paper from Canadian researchers draws attention to the importance of building capacity and providing ... -
Does Stress-Related Poor Diet Quality Explain Socioeconomic Inequities in Health? A Structural Equation Mediation Analysis in Women and Men
Olstad, Dana; Nejatinamini, Sara; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Vanderlee, Lana; Livingstone, Katherine; Campbell, David; Tang, Karen; Minaker, Leia; Hammond, David (Oxford University Press, 2021-06)Objectives Individuals with a lower socioeconomic position (SEP) have poorer health than their more advantaged counterparts. Psychosocial stress and diet quality have been shown to individually mediate associations between ... -
The effect of different methods to identify, and scenarios used to address energy intake misestimation on dietary patterns derived by cluster analysis
Lo Siou, Geraldine; Akawung, Alianu K.; Solbak, Nathan M.; McDonald, Kathryn L.; Al Rajabi, Ala; Whelan, Heather K.; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I. (BioMed Central, 2021-05-08)Background: All self-reported dietary intake data are characterized by measurement error, and validation studies indicate that the estimation of energy intake (EI) is particularly affected. Methods: Using self-reported ... -
Evaluating the feasibility of administering a combination of online dietary assessment tools in a cohort of adults in Alberta, Canada
Solbak, Nathan M.; Siou, Geraldine Lo; Paek, Seol; Rajabi, Ala Al; Vena, Jennifer E.; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Robson, Paula J. (2017-01)Purpose: Evidence suggests that combining tools, such as 24-hour recalls and food frequency questionnaires, may allow more accurate assessment of diet in epidemiologic studies. Webbased technology should make this approach ... -
Evaluation of the online Beverage Frequency Questionnaire (BFQ)
Vanderlee, Lana; Reid, Jessica L.; White, Christine M.; Hobin, Erin P.; Acton, Rachel B.; Jones, Amanda C.; O'Neill, Meghan; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Hammond, David (Springer, 2018-08)Background The contribution of beverages to overall diet is of increasing interest to researchers and policymakers, particularly in terms of consumption of drinks high in added sugars; however, few tools to assess beverage ... -
Experiences of Food Insecurity Among Undergraduate Students: “You Can’t Starve Yourself Through School”
Maynard, Merryn; Meyer, Samantha B.; Perlman, Christopher M.; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I. (Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, 2019-03)Canadian post-secondary students are vulnerable to food insecurity, yet lack of examination of this issue has prevented identification of policy and program solutions. This mixed-methods study aimed to characterize the ... -
Food Insecurity and Mental Health among Females in High-Income Countries
Maynard, Merryn; Andrade, Lesley; Packull-McCormick, Sara; Perlman, Christopher M.; Leos-Toro, Cesar; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I. (MDPI, 2018-07-06)Food insecurity is a persistent concern in high-income countries, and has been associated with poor mental health, particularly among females. We conducted a scoping review to characterize the state of the evidence on food ... -
Food Literacy while Shopping: Motivating Informed Food Purchasing Behaviour with a Situated Gameful App
Bomfim, Marcela C.C.; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I.; Nacke, Lennart; Wallace, James R. (ACM, 2020-04-25)Establishing healthy eating patterns early in life is critical and has implications for lifelong health. Situated interventions are a promising approach to improve eating patterns. How- ever, HCI research has emphasized ... -
Food, health, and complexity: towards a conceptual understanding to guide collaborative public health action
Majowicz, Shannon; Meyer, Samantha B.; Graham, Julianne L.; Shaikh, Arshi; Elliott, Susan J.; Minaker, Leia M.; Scott, Steffanie; Laird, Brian; Kirkpatrick, Sharon I. (BioMed Central, 2016-06-08)Background: What we eat simultaneously impacts our exposure to pathogens, allergens, and contaminants, our nutritional status and body composition, our risks for and the progression of chronic diseases, and other outcomes. ...