Fruved: Score Fruved Instruments

Short Healthy Eating Index (sHEI)

sHEI is a 22-item survey instrument developed for assessing dietary quality. Unlike the regular HEI calculations, which require collecting comprehensive food records, sHEI is a cost-effective way to quantify dietary quality.

Once your data (data) is cleaned and formatted according to our codebook, you can run this:

data_scored <- sHEI_Scores(data)

By default, the output data frame data_scored will only include the computed variables.

If you use our sHEI instrument in your research, please cite the following paper:

Colby, S., Zhou, W., Allison, C., Mathews, A. E., Olfert, M. D., Morrell, J. S., Byrd-Bredbenner, C., Greene, G., Brown, O., Kattelmann, K., & Shelnutt, K. (2020). Development and Validation of the Short Healthy Eating Index Survey with a College Population to Assess Dietary Quality and Intake. Nutrients, 12(9), 2611. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12092611

The DOI link provides the open-access paper with the questionaire and its scoring algorithm documented in its appendix.

Input and Output

To score sHEI, we require the following variables and encoding:

Gender : Are you male or female? M = Male; F = Female. Other values are not possible.
Q1 (Fruit) : On average, how many servings of fruit (not including juice) do eat per day? Choices are:
1 = Less than 1
2 = 1
3 = 2
4 = 3
5 = 4
6 = 5
7 = 6 or more
8 = Choose not to answer
Q2 (Fruitjuice) : On average, how many servings of 100% fruit juice do you drink per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q3 (Vege) : On average, how many servings of vegetables do you eat per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q4 (Greenvege) : On average, how many servings of green vegetables do you eat per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q5 (Starchy) : On average, how many servings of starchy vegetables do you eat per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q6 (Grains) : On average, how many servings of grains do you eat per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q7 (Grains2) : [shown only if "Less Than 1" is selected for Q6]. On average, how often do you eat grains? Choices are:
1 = A couple times per week
2 = A couple times per month
3 = A couple times per year
4 = Almost never
5 = Never
6 = Choose not to answer
Q8 (Wholegrains) : On average, how many servings of whole grains do you eat per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q9 (Wholegrains2) : [shown only if "Less Than 1" is selected for Q8]. On average, how often do you eat whole grains? Choices are the same as Q7.
Q10 (Milk) : On average, how many servings of milk do you eat or drink per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q11 (Milk2) : [shown only if "Less Than 1" is selected for Q10]. On average, how often do you drink or eat milk products? Choices are the same as Q7.
Q12 (Lowfatmilk) : On average, how many servings of low-fat milk products do you eat per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q13 (Lowfatmilk2) : [shown only if "Less Than 1" is selected for Q12]. On average, how often do you drink or eat low-fat milk products? Choices are the same as Q7.
Q14 (Beans) : On average, how many servings of beans (legumes) do you eat per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q15 (Nutseeds) : On average, how many servings of nuts or seeds do you eat per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q16 (Seafood): On average, how many servings of seafood do you eat per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q17 (Seafood2) : [shown only if "Less Than 1" is selected for Q16]. On average, how often do you eat seafood? Choices are the same as Q7.
Q18 (Ssb) : On average, how many sugar-sweetened beverages do you drink per day? Choices are the same as Q1.
Q19 (Ssb2) : [shown only if "Less Than 1" is selected for Q18]. On average, how often do you drink sugar-sweetened beverages? Choices are the same as Q7.
Q20 (Addedsugars) : On average, how much added sugars do you consume per day? Choices are:
1 = None/almost none
2 = Some
3 = A lot
4 = Choose not to answer
Q21 (Satfat) : How many servings of saturated fat do you consume on average per day? Choices are the same as Q20.
Q22 (Water) : On average, how much water do you drink per day? Choices are the same as Q20.

The output of our sHEI code is a data frame that includes estimated HEI component and total scores and certain food group intakes.

Estimates of component and total HEI scores are: sHEI_total_fruits : sHEI estimated Total Fruits Component (compared to total_fruits in HEI), 0–5 sHEI_whole_fruits : sHEI estimated Whole Fruits Component (whole_fruits), 0–5 sHEI_tot_veg : sHEI estimated Total Vegetables Component (tot_veg), 0–5 sHEI_greens_beans : sHEI estimated Greens and Beans Component (greens_beans), 0–5 sHEI_whole_grains : sHEI estimated Whole Grains Component (whole_grains), 0–10 sHEI_dairy : sHEI estimated Dairy Component (Dairy), 0–10 sHEI_tot_proteins : sHEI estimated Total Protein Foods Component (tot_proteins), 0–5 sHEI_seafood_plant : sHEI estimated Seafood and Plant Protein Component (Seafood_Plant), 0–5 sHEI_fatty_acid : sHEI estimated Fatty Acid Ratio Component (Fatty_Acid), 0–10 sHEI_refined_grains : sHEI estimated Refined Grains Component (Refined_Grains), 0–10 sHEI_sodium : sHEI estimated Sodium Component (Sodium), 0–10 sHEI_added_sugars : sHEI estimated Added Sugars Component (Added_Sugars), 0–10 sHEI_sat_fat : sHEI estimated Saturated Fats Component (sat_fat), 0–10 sHEI_tot_score : sHEI estimated Total DQ Score (0–100)

Estimates of food group intakes are: sHEI_DSQfvl : sHEI estimated Total Fruit and Vegetable Servings in Cup Equivalents Including Legumes and French Fries (DSQfvl) sHEI_DSQfvlnf : sHEI estimated Total Fruit and Vegetable Servings in Cup Equivalents Including Legumes and Excluding French Fries (Dsqfvlnf) sHEI_DSQfrt : sHEI estimated Total Fruit Servings in Cup Equivalents (Dsqfrt) sHEI_DSQvlall : sHEI estimated Total Vegetable Servings in Cup Equivalents Including Legumes and French Fries (Dsqvlall) sHEI_DSQvlnf : sHEI estimated Total Vegetable Servings in Cup Equivalents Including Legumes and Excluding French Fries (Dsqvlnf) sHEI_DSQdairy : sHEI estimated Dairy Servings in Cup Equivalents (Dsqdairy) sHEI_DSQsug : sHEI estimated Added Sugars in Teaspoon Equivalents (Dsqsug) sHEI_DSQssb : sHEI estimated Added Sugars from Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Teaspoon Equivalents (DSQssb) sHEI_DSQwhgr : sHEI estimated Whole Grains in Ounce Equivalents (DSQwhgr) sHEI_DSQfib : sHEI estimated Fiber in Grams (DSQfib) sHEI_DSQcalc : sHEI estimated Calcium in Milligrams (DSQcalc) sHEI_greens : sHEI estimated Green Vegetables in Cup Equivalents