Test-retest reliability of a new questionnaire on the diet and eating behavior of one year old children

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Table 5 Dinner foods, median weekly frequencies and correlation coefficients

	n	Median test	Median retest	Spearman’s r	Cohen’s kappa ¹
Sausages	94	0	0	0.54	0.52
Homemade meat dinner	94	2	2	0.70	0.62
Homemade fish dinner	94	2	2	0.62	0.58
Ready made meat dinner	94	0	0	0.57	0.51
Ready made fish dinner	94	0	2	0.55	0.52
Homemade pizza	94	0	0	0.63	0.63
Other dinner foods	94	2	2	0.42	0.42
Rice	94	2	2	0.78	0.76
Potatoes, not crisps	94	2	2	0.80	0.65
Pasta	94	2	2	0.54	0.45
Gravy/cream sauce	94	2	2	0.73	0.62
Vegetables at dinner	94	7	7	0.65	0.51
Commercial baby fish dinner	94	0	0	0.87	0.78
Commercial baby meat dinner	94	2	2	0.85	0.72
Commercial baby vegetables	94	0	0	0.60	0.54

¹Scale and frequency variables were ranked into quartile categories for calculating Cohen’s kappa. All correlation measures significant at p ≤ 0.001.

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