Eetscore

Do you want to assess diet quality by evaluating the adherence of your participants or patients to the Dutch Foodbased Dietary Guidelines?

The Eetscore tool consists of two components:

  1. the Eetscore itself, which assesses the adherence to the Dutch Dietary Guidelines by calculating a score based on a short Food Frequency Questionnaire.
  2. a personalised dietary advice module based on this score with concrete suggestions on how to improve the quality of the diet.

Eetscore

The Eetscore is self-administrated web-based screener based for diet quality. It consists of 40 questions and is scored with the Dutch Healthy Diet 2015-index to evaluate adherence to the Dutch food-based dietary guidelines.

The Eetscore scores 16 components representing the Dutch Food-based Dietary Guidelines of 2015. Each component is scored between 0 and 10 points, and these scores are summed. The total score can vary between 0 and 160 points. More information about the development and evaluation of the Eetscore can be found in this article.

Note: the Eetscore will give you an indication of the adherence to the Dutch Food-based Dietary Guidelines from 2015. It cannot be used to assess energy or nutrient intake because it only covers a part of the intake.

Targeted dietary advice

In addition to their actual Eetscore, participants can also receive dietary advice. This advice is based on their score per component.

Note: The advice feature is optional. The Eetscore can be used with or without this module, depending on the study purpose.

Target population

The Eetscore is specifically developed for the Dutch adult population, for which the Dutch Dietary Guidelines are intended. The Eetscore and optional advice is not suited for use in populations with specific nutritional needs, such as undernourished patients or coeliac patients.

Implementing the Eetscore

The Eetscore is a web-based tool. Researchers can invite participants to complete the Eetscore via an invitation send by the Eetscore tool. Since the Eetscore tool not only includes the questionnaire but also the calculation of the scores and the dietary advice it’s not possible to build in the Eetscore questionnaire in your own platform.

Processing of the data

The Eetscore scores per participant can be exported as .xlsx file that is
compatible with any statistical software program. Exporting the .xlsx file with
scores can be done by the researchers themselves.