Table 1.
Foods and drink item group and agreement statistics between independent coders for Home Health Environment: Instrument Development. (n=18).
| Item Group | Food or Drink Item | Presence Kappa/Percentage Agreement |
Accessibility Kappa/Percentage Agreement |
Readiness to be Eaten Kappa/Percentage Agreement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNHEA | Chocolate and other sweet candy/candy bars | 0.94* | 1.0 | .76 |
| UNHEA | Already made cakes, brownies, cookies, muffins (not English), donuts, other breakfast bars, pastries (≥3g fat/serving OR ≥ 7g sugar serving) | 0.94* | .85 | .46 |
| UNHEA | Unprepared mixes for cakes, brownies, muffins, cookie dough | 0.89* | .71 | .12 |
| UNHEA | Regular chips (e.g., potato chips, corn chips) | 0.89* | .76 | .45 |
| UNHEA | Fruit roll-ups or dried fruit | 1.00 | 1.0 | 1.00 |
| UNHEA | Ice cream or other frozen desserts | 1.00 | 1.00* | .85 |
| UNHEA | Sweetened breakfast cereals (>6g sugar servings) | 0.44 | 1.0 | .77 |
| UNHEA | Frozen/unprepared or cooked/deli bacon, sausage, hotdogs, or bologna | 1.00 | 1.00* | .88 |
| UNHEA | Butter or margarine | 1.00* | 1.00 | −0.08 |
| FVHEA | Non-fat cheese or yogurt | 1.00 | 1.00* | 1.0 |
| FVHEA | Frozen/unprepared OR cooked/deli turkey, chicken, fish, or other “extra lean” labelled meat (must be <5g total fat/serving) | 0.94* | 1.00* | .42 |
| FVHEA | Unsweetened breakfast cereals (≤6g sugar/serving) | −0.07 | .66 | 1.00 |
| FVHEA | Pretzels or baked chips | 0.64 | .67 | .74 |
| FVHEA | Non-butter crackers (must have <2g fat/servings AND < 5g of sugar serving) | 0.73 | .77 | .17 |
| FVHEA | Hard-to open or peel fruits (e.g. fresh bananas, melons) | 1.00 | 1.00* | -- |
| FVHEA | Easy-to-open/eat fruits (e.g. fresh apples, grapes) – not canned | 0.94* | 1.00* | 1.00* |
| FVHEA | Hard-to-open or peel veggies(e.g. pumpkin, frozen veg.) – not canned | 0.64 | −.07 | -- |
| FVHEA | Easy-to-open/eat veggies (e.g. baby carrots, pre-cut veggies, bag lettuce) | 1.00 | 1.00* | 1.0 |
| FVHEA | “100% fruit juice” | 0.85 | .64 | .59 |
| UNBEV | Fruit Drinks (not 100% fruit juice) | 0.20 | 1.00* | .71 |
| UNBEV | Regular sodas | 0.85 | 1.00* | 1.0 |
| UNBEV | Sport drinks (e.g. Gatorade) | 0.49 | 1.0 | 1.00* |
| UNBEV | Regular (whole) or 2% milk | 0.89 | 1.00* | 1.00* |
UNHEA = unhealthy snack or food; UNBEV = unhealthy drink; FVHEA = fruits, vegetables, or other healthy food or drink.
*
Percentage agreement was reported when one coder showed no variability in coding and thus not suitable for kappa calculation.
Bolded estimates are below acceptable levels of agreement.