Table 2.
The 10 subscales constituting the NND score | Spearman's rank order correlation | Kappa measure of agreement (dichotomized subscales) | Percent agreement between test and retest (dichotomized subscales) | |
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1: | Meal pattern | 0.78 | 0.70 | 85 |
2: | Nordic fruits | 0.76 | 0.60 | 81 |
3: | Root vegetables | 0.71 | 0.63 | 82 |
4: | Cabbages | 0.54 | 0.32 | 67 |
5: | Potatoes vs. rice/pasta | 0.70 | 0.67 | 84 |
6: | Whole grain breads vs. white breads | 0.62 | 0.52 | 76 |
7: | Oatmeal porridge | 0.84 | 0.67 | 84 |
8: | Foods from the wild countryside | 0.70 | 0.51 | 76 |
9: | Milk vs. juice | 0.84 | 0.76 | 88 |
10: | Water vs. sugar/artificially sweetened beverages | 0.79 | 0.43 | 72 |
NND score | 0.80a | 0.52b | 69b |
NND, New Nordic Diet.
P-values for all analyses were <0.001.
Pearson correlation coefficient is used for the NND score.
Trichotomized score.