TY - JOUR
T1 - Content validation of a chrononutrition questionnaire for the general and shift work populations
T2 - A delphi study
AU - Phoi, Yan Yin
AU - Bonham, Maxine P.
AU - Rogers, Michelle
AU - Dorrian, Jillian
AU - Coates, Alison M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) fee offset scholarship (funding Y.Y.P.)We would like to acknowledge the experts who participated in this Delphi study.
Funding Information:
Funding: This project received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Pro‐ gram (RTP) fee offset scholarship (funding Y.Y.P.)
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Unusual meal timing has been associated with a higher prevalence of chronic disease. Those at greater risk include shift workers and evening chronotypes. This study aimed to validate the content of a Chrononutrition Questionnaire for shift and non‐shift workers to identify temporal patterns of eating in relation to chronotype. Content validity was determined using a Delphi study of three rounds. Experts rated the relevance of, and provided feedback on, 46 items across seven outcomes: meal regularity, times of first eating occasion, last eating occasion, largest meal, main meals/snacks, wake, and sleep, which were edited in response. Items with greater than 70% consensus of relevance were accepted. Rounds one, two, and three had 28, 26, and 24 experts, respectively. Across three rounds, no outcomes were irrelevant, but seven were merged into three for ease of usage, and two sections were added for experts to rate and comment on. In the final round, all but one of 29 items achieved greater than 70% consensus of relevance with no further changes. The Chrononutrition Questionnaire was deemed relevant to experts in circadian biology and chrononutrition, and could represent a convenient tool to assess temporal patterns of eating in relation to chronotype in future studies.
AB - Unusual meal timing has been associated with a higher prevalence of chronic disease. Those at greater risk include shift workers and evening chronotypes. This study aimed to validate the content of a Chrononutrition Questionnaire for shift and non‐shift workers to identify temporal patterns of eating in relation to chronotype. Content validity was determined using a Delphi study of three rounds. Experts rated the relevance of, and provided feedback on, 46 items across seven outcomes: meal regularity, times of first eating occasion, last eating occasion, largest meal, main meals/snacks, wake, and sleep, which were edited in response. Items with greater than 70% consensus of relevance were accepted. Rounds one, two, and three had 28, 26, and 24 experts, respectively. Across three rounds, no outcomes were irrelevant, but seven were merged into three for ease of usage, and two sections were added for experts to rate and comment on. In the final round, all but one of 29 items achieved greater than 70% consensus of relevance with no further changes. The Chrononutrition Questionnaire was deemed relevant to experts in circadian biology and chrononutrition, and could represent a convenient tool to assess temporal patterns of eating in relation to chronotype in future studies.
KW - Chronotype
KW - Circadian rhythm
KW - Meal regularity
KW - Meal timing
KW - Nutrition assessment
KW - Questionnaire development
KW - Temporal meal patterns
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U2 - 10.3390/nu13114087
DO - 10.3390/nu13114087
M3 - Article
C2 - 34836341
AN - SCOPUS:85118934673
SN - 2072-6643
VL - 13
JO - Nutrients
JF - Nutrients
IS - 11
M1 - 4087
ER -