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Table 2 Single measure Intraclass correlation coefficients and 95% confidence intervals for food variety and servings

From: Reliability and validity of the Healthy Home Survey: A tool to measure factors within homes hypothesized to relate to overweight in children

 

Variety (number of types)1

Servings (number of servings)

 

Reliability (95% CI)

Validity (95% CI)

Reliability (95% CI)

Validity (95% CI)

Fresh fruit

0.37 (0.09–0.59)

0.54 (0.37–0.68)

0.22 (-0.07 – 0.48)

0.39 (0.20–0.56)

Canned fruit

0.81 (0.68–0.89)

0.66 (0.51–0.76)

0.84 (0.72 – 0.91)

0.68 (0.55–0.78)

Frozen fruit

0.85 (0.75–0.92)

0.71 (0.59–0.81)

0.91 (0.84 – 0.95)

0.83 (0.76–0.89)

Dried fruit

0.89 (0.81–0.94)

0.88 (0.82–0.92)

0.39 (0.11 – 0.61)

0.67 (0.53–0.77)

Fresh vegetables

0.81 (0.70–0.90)

0.70 (0.57–0.80)

0.77 (0.62 – 0.87)

0.30 (0.09–0.48)

Canned vegetables

0.89 (0.81–0.94)

0.70 (0.57–0.79)

0.81 (0.68 – 0.89)

0.68 (0.54–0.78)

Frozen vegetables

0.83 (0.71–0.90)

0.82 (0.73–0.88)

0.63 (0.42 – 0.78)

0.74 (0.63–0.83)

Salty/savory snacks

0.85 (0.75–0.92)

0.48 (0.29–0.63)

0.71 (0.53 – 0.83)

0.46 (0.28–0.61)

Sweet snacks

0.65 (0.44–0.77)

0.30 (0.09–0.49)

0.64 (0.42 – 0.78)

0.32 (0.12–0.50)

Candy

-2

-2

0.49 (0.23 – 0.68)

0.64 (0.50–0.75)

Soda

0.77 (0.62–0.87)

0.76 (0.65–0.85)

0.69 (0.50 – 0.82)

0.66 (0.53–0.77)

  1. 1Calculated from average serving size for each item; 2Variety of candy not calculated