Development of the Canadian Eating Practices Screener for Adolescents to assess eating practices based on Canada’s Food Guide 2019 recommendations
Raphaëlle Jacob, Marciane Any, Virginie Desgreniers, Geneviève Bessette, Rita Al Kazzi, Alicia E Martin, Claire Tugault-Lafleur, Kimberley Hernandez, Sylvie St-Pierre, Jess Haines · 2025
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Raphaëlle Jacob and co-authors build a short questionnaire to measure how Canadian teens eat, judged against the 2019 Canada Food Guide. The guide speaks not just to food choice but to habits: cooking, eating with others, enjoying food. A brief screener for these practices existed for adults, but not for adolescents. The team set out to make and content-check a teen version for English and French speakers aged 10 to 17.
A first draft held 26 items, drawn from a literature review and set principles. Expert panels in nutrition, eating behavior, public health, and questionnaire craft reviewed it: 13 in English, 7 in French. Their cuts brought the list to 12. Two rounds of think-aloud interviews with teens, 18 in English and 13 in French, trimmed it to 11 items and fixed unclear wording. A short, plain tool is what surveys need to track teen eating habits at scale.
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| CREATOR | Raphaëlle Jacob, Marciane Any, Virginie Desgreniers, Geneviève Bessette, Rita Al Kazzi, Alicia E Martin, Claire Tugault-Lafleur, Kimberley Hernandez, Sylvie St-Pierre, Jess Haines |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |