Table 3.
Differences in consumption of daily food servings by Diet Quality Index–International (DQI-I) score categories among adolescents (n 736) aged 12–18 years living in rural Sri Lanka, based on data from the ‘Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development’ project, August/September 2015
| DQI-I score quartile | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st (DQI-I<47) | 2nd (DQI-I=48–56) | 3rd (DQI-I=57–66) | 4th (DQI-I=67–83) | Correlation with total DQI-I | ||||||||||
| Variable | n | Mean | sd | n | Mean | sd | n | Mean | sd | n | Mean | sd | P value | |
| Grain (servings/d) | 277 | 6·44 | 2·99 | 199 | 9·64 | 4·84 | 167 | 10·08 | 6·32 | 93 | 13·23 | 6·52 | <0·01 | 0·45 |
| Vegetables (servings/d) | 277 | 1·89 | 1·19 | 199 | 3·20 | 2·09 | 167 | 4·53 | 3·48 | 93 | 7·30 | 4·78 | <0·01 | 0·57 |
| Fruit (servings/day) | 277 | 0·76 | 0·56 | 199 | 1·48 | 1·05 | 167 | 2·35 | 1·79 | 93 | 3·94 | 2·19 | <0·01 | 0·65 |
| Dairy (servings/d) | 277 | 0·33 | 0·57 | 199 | 0·54 | 0·65 | 167 | 0·72 | 0·67 | 93 | 1·42 | 1·42 | <0·01 | 0·41 |
| Meat, poultry, fish and eggs (servings/d) | 277 | 1·04 | 1·82 | 199 | 1·76 | 2·12 | 167 | 2·70 | 2·85 | 93 | 5·25 | 5·95 | <0·01 | 0·38 |
| Beans (servings/d) | 277 | 0·45 | 0·36 | 199 | 0·78 | 0·53 | 167 | 1·31 | 1·12 | 93 | 2·03 | 1·44 | <0·01 | 0·54 |
| Foods high in fat, sugar and salt (servings/d) | 277 | 3·06 | 2·84 | 199 | 5·52 | 7·72 | 167 | 7·51 | 13·32 | 93 | 8·89 | 8·48 | <0·01 | 0·27 |