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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Nutr. 2010 Feb;29(1):14–24. doi: 10.1080/07315724.2010.10719812

Table 5.

Dietary intake of selected nutrients, food groups and eating quality by the level of reporting bias and accuracy (adjusted for age, education and energy intake for continuous variables)

Variable Levels of reporting bias
LER1 TER2 HER3
UE4
N=44
UR5
N=84
CR6
N=53
IR7
N=79
OE8
N=8
OR9
N=28
% energy from protein*# 15.9 (3.4) 14.4 (3.2) 14.0 (3.0) 13.5 (2.8) 12.8 (2.2) 14.1 (3.2)
% energy from carbohydrates 51.7 (9.1) 53.1 (8.6) 52.3 (8.0) 54.0 (8.3) 51.8 (5.5) 51.5 (9.4)
% energy from fat 32.5 (7.2) 32.6 (8.0) 35.0 (7.1) 33.6 (7.5) 39.9 (4.7) 38.2 (8.4)
Daily servings of vegetables, mean (SD) 2.2 (1.5 2.3 (1.5) 3.1 (1.4) 3.0 (2.1) 3.6 (1.1) 2.1 (1.3)
Daily servings of fruit, mean (SD) 1.7 (1.2) 1.791.0) 1.9 (1.0) 1.9 (1.1) 8.4 (4.4) 9.4 (3.7)
Daily servings of grains, mean (SD) 4.6 (1.8) 4.8 (2.2) 6.8 (2.8) 7.0 (2.6) 3.1 (1.8) 3.4 (1.7)
Daily servings of meat/protein, mean (SD)*# 1.5 (0.7) 1.1 (0.8) 1.8 (0.96) 2.0 (1.7) 3.1 (1.8) 3.4 (1.7)
Daily servings of milk, yogurt and cheese, mean (SD) 0.86 (0.88) 0.98 (0.94) 1.6 (1.4) 1.3 (1.2) 2 (1.2) 1.4 (1.0)
Daily servings of fats, oils, sweets and sodas, mean (SD)***# 2.4 (1.3) 2.3(1.5) 3.4 (1.5) 3.5 (1.7) 2.0 91.2) 1.4 (1.0)
Healthy Eating Index score, mean (SD)*# 68.3 (14.1) 66.4 (13.4) 68.3 (11.4) 68.7 (13.4) 58.3 (10.4) 64.1 (17.0)
Appetite and restraint score, mean (SD) 9.1 (5.5) 9.6 (4.9) 8.3 (5.0) 7.9 (5.5) 6.0 7.1
Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability score, mean (SD) 23.6 (4.6) 24.5 (4.5) 24.4 (3.7) 23.9 (3.9) 24.5 (3.9) 24.1 (4.6)
Good appetite (self rated), % 35 (79.5) 73 (86.9) 42 (79.2) 62 (78.5) 4 (50) 25 (89.3)
Better appetite (self rated), % 5 (11.4) 12 (14.5) 9 (17.3) 7 (8.9) 1 (12.5) 6 (21.4)
#

P value between LER, TER and HER <0.05

Post-Hoc results; Protein % 1#4, Daily servings of meat/protein 1#5, 1#6, 2#3, 2#4, 2#5, 2#6

*

P between the 6 groups

*

P-value<0.05

**

P-value <0.01

***

P<0.001

1

LER: low energy reporters

2

TER: “true” energy reporters

3

HER: high energy reporters

4

UE: undereaters

5

UR: underreporters

6

CR: correct reporters

7

IR: incorrect reporters

8

OE: overeaters

9

OR: overreporters