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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Nutr Educ Behav. 2017 Jul 22;49(10):847–851.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jneb.2017.06.006

Table 2.

Agreement on Type and Amount of Beverages Consumed Between Middle-School Students’ (n = 25) Self-Report and Researchers’ Direct Observation

Beverage % (N) Consumed in Observation % (N) Consumed in Self Report Kappa for Whether Beverage Consumed Raw Agreement for Whether Beverage Consumed Weighted Kappae for Amount of Beverage Consumed Weighted Raw Agreemente for Amount of Beverage Consumed
All plain watera 28% (7) 36% (9) 0.82 92.0% 0.81 96.0%
Water from a free source at schoolb 28% (7) 36% (9) 0.82 92.0% 0.67 92.0%
Flavored water 4% (1) 12% (3) 0.47 92.0% 0.31 94.7%
Plain milk 20% (5) 28% (7) 0.78 92.0% 0.75 92.0%
Flavored milk 16% (4) 12% (3) 0.83 96.0% 0.75 94.7%
Soda 0% (0) 4% (1) 0.00 96.0% 0.00 96.0%
Other sugary or sweetened beveragesc 4% (1) 4% (1) 1.00 100.0% 0.79 98.7%
Other beverages 12% (3) 12% (3) 0.24 84.0% 0.45 92.0%
All sugar-sweetened beveragesd 8% (2) 20% (5) 0.52 88.0% 0.45 92.0%
Tap water from home 0% (0) 0% (0) Incalculable* 100.0% Incalculable* 100.0%
Plain bottled water 0% (0) 0% (0) Incalculable* 100.0% Incalculable* 100.0%
100% fruit juice 0% (0) 0% (0) Incalculable* 100.0% Incalculable* 100.0%
Sports drinks 0% (0) 0% (0) Incalculable* 100.0% Incalculable* 100.0%
Energy drinks 0% (0) 0% (0) Incalculable* 100.0% Incalculable* 100.0%
Diet drinks 0% (0) 0% (0) Incalculable* 100.0% Incalculable* 100.0%
*

Incalculable due to perfect agreement and no variation in responses.

a

Includes water from a free source at school (fountain, dispenser, or water bottle filling station), tap water brought from home, and non-flavored bottled water.

b

Includes water from a water fountain, dispenser, or water bottle filling station at school.

c

Includes sweetened drinks such as fruit-flavored drinks (Capri Sun, Sunny Delight), sweetened coffee/tea, aguas frescas.

d

Includes flavored water, sports drinks, energy drinks, soda, and other sugary or sweetened beverages.

e

Weighted kappa and weighted agreement use a linear weighting function.