Pediatric Adapted Liking Survey: A Novel, Feasible and Reliable Dietary Screening in Clinical Practice

Smith, Sharon R.; Johnson, Stephanie T.; Oldman, Samantha; Duffy, Valerie B.

doi:10.1159/000485467

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“…To help address this, two aspects of diet exposure were recorded, using a traditional semi-quantitative FFQ to estimate habitual intake and a more novel questionnaire targeting preference for foods and intake estimates was adjusted for reported energy intake [29]. Though the two instruments are designed to target different food aspects, data obtained by the latter instrument, which has been claimed to be less prone to bias [30], correlated positively with reported intakes. Though the correlations were weak, they may be seen as a potential quality support for the FFQ registered intakes.…”

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Allelic Variation in Taste Genes Is Associated with Taste and Diet Preferences and Dental Caries

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Taste and diet preferences are complex and influenced by both environmental and host traits while affecting both food selection and associated health outcomes. The present study genotyped 94 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in previously reported taste and food intake related genes and assessed associations with taste threshold (TT) and preferred intensity (PT) of sweet, sour and bitter, food preferences, habitual diet intake, and caries status in healthy young Swedish men and women (n = 127). Polymorphisms in the GNAT3, SLC2A4, TAS1R1 and TAS1R2 genes were associated with variation in TT and PT for sweet taste as well as sweet food intake. Increasing PT for sweet was associated with increasing preference and intake of sugary foods. Similarly, increasing TT for sour was associated with increasing intake of sour foods, whereas the associations between food preference/intake and TT/PT for bitter was weak in this study group. Finally, allelic variation in the GNAT3, SLC2A2, SLC2A4, TAS1R1 and TAS1R2 genes was associated with caries status, whereas TT, PT and food preferences were not. It was concluded that variations in taste receptor, glucose transporter and gustducin encoding genes are related to taste perception, food preference and intake as well as the sugar-dependent caries disease.

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Allelic Variation in Taste Genes Is Associated with Taste and Diet Preferences and Dental Caries

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“…The main purpose of this symposium was to give scientists and educators with a focus on cariology and dental public health the opportunity to update their knowledge about the relation between sugar and oral health without neglecting the impact of sugar on general health. We are grateful that some presenters transformed their lecture into a paper which can be found in the same issue of Caries Research as this commentary [Smith et al, 2019;van Loveren et al, 2019;Pieper et al, 2019;Breda et al, 2019]. The scientific committee of this symposium also hoped that the lectures presented at the ORCA-EADPH symposium would contribute to encouraging researchers from the fields of cariology and dental public health to develop tools for patients and populations that enable them to lower sugar intake to an acceptable level, in line with the WHO guideline on sugar intake [World Health Organization, 2015].…”

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The Joint ORCA-EADPH Symposium on Sugar: The Oral Health Perspective – A Commentary

Schulte¹,

Tsakos²

2018

Caries Res

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Caries is the most prevalent chronic condition worldwide and the association between high-level intake of sugars and dental decay is strong and well established. Interestingly, to combat caries, dental practitioners and public health dentists in many countries have focused mainly on the application of different kinds of fluorides and fissure sealants but not on the reduction of sugar intake. Furthermore, for many years, sugars have not been the focus of dental research activities presented at the annual conferences of the European Organisation for Caries Research (ORCA) and the European Association of Dental Public Health (EADPH). In 2015, following the publication of the new WHO guidelines on the intake of sugars, the boards of ORCA and EADPH agreed to organize a common symposium entitled “Joint ORCA-ADPH Symposium on Sugar: The Oral Health Perspective”. This symposium was organized by a scientific committee and took place on July 6, 2016, in association with the 63rd ORCA Congress in Athens, Greece. It included 9 lectures highlighting different aspects of sugar consumption, contribution of sugar to dental caries, measuring sugar consumption, and fighting against sugar on a patient and public health basis. The purpose of this commentary is to give background information about the rationale of the above-mentioned symposium.

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“…Reported food liking correlates with reported intake [16,17,18], biomarkers of intake and/or adiposity in children [18] and adults [19,20,21]. The Pediatric-adapted Liking Survey (PALS) is fast, has a high response rate in the PED, with good-to-excellent clinical-to-home test–retest reliability [22]. Furthermore, results from an assessment of children’s preference for food and physical activity (PA) can guide program planning [23].…”

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“…The present study further develops PALS [22] to address needs in clinical settings. One need is to screen dietary behaviors in children and their parents (i.e., child–parent dyads) with comparable methods.…”

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Pediatric-Adapted Liking Survey (PALS): A Diet and Activity Screener in Pediatric Care

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Clinical settings need rapid yet useful methods to screen for diet and activity behaviors for brief interventions and to guide obesity prevention efforts. In an urban pediatric emergency department, these behaviors were screened in children and parents with the 33-item Pediatric-Adapted Liking Survey (PALS) to assess the reliability and validity of a Healthy Behavior Index (HBI) generated from the PALS responses. The PALS was completed by 925 children (average age = 11 ± 4 years, 55% publicly insured, 37% overweight/obese by Body Mass Index Percentile, BMI-P) and 925 parents. Child–parent dyads differed most in liking of vegetables, sweets, sweet drinks, and screen time. Across the sample, child and parent HBIs were variable, normally distributed with adequate internal reliability and construct validity, revealing two dimensions (less healthy—sweet drinks, sweets, sedentary behaviors; healthy—vegetables, fruits, proteins). The HBI showed criterion validity, detecting healthier indexes in parents vs. children, females vs. males, privately- vs. publicly-health insured, and residence in higher- vs. lower-income communities. Parent’s HBI explained some variability in child BMI percentile. Greater liking of sweets/carbohydrates partially mediated the association between low family income and higher BMI percentile. These findings support the utility of PALS as a dietary behavior and activity screener for children and their parents in a clinical setting.

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Pediatric Adapted Liking Survey: A Novel, Feasible and Reliable Dietary Screening in Clinical Practice

Cited by 11 publications

References 27 publications

Allelic Variation in Taste Genes Is Associated with Taste and Diet Preferences and Dental Caries

Allelic Variation in Taste Genes Is Associated with Taste and Diet Preferences and Dental Caries

The Joint ORCA-EADPH Symposium on Sugar: The Oral Health Perspective – A Commentary

Pediatric-Adapted Liking Survey (PALS): A Diet and Activity Screener in Pediatric Care

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