Reliability and validity of a Mediterranean diet and culinary index (MediCul) tool in an older population with mild cognitive impairment

S Radd-Vagenas; MA Fiatarone Singh; M Inskip; Y Mavros; N Gates; GC Wilson; N Jain; J Meiklejohn; H Brodaty; W Wen; N Singh; BT Baune; C Suo; MK Baker; N Foroughi; PS Sachdev; M Valenzuela; VM Flood

Journal article

Reliability and validity of a Mediterranean diet and culinary index (MediCul) tool in an older population with mild cognitive impairment

S Radd-Vagenas, MA Fiatarone Singh, M Inskip, Y Mavros, N Gates, GC Wilson, N Jain, J Meiklejohn, H Brodaty, W Wen, N Singh, BT Baune, C Suo, MK Baker, N Foroughi, PS Sachdev, M Valenzuela, VM Flood

British Journal of Nutrition | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1017/S0007114518002428

Abstract

Dementia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality without pharmacologic prevention or cure. Mounting evidence suggests that adherence to a Mediterranean dietary pattern may slow cognitive decline, and is important to characterise in at-risk cohorts. Thus, we determined the reliability and validity of the Mediterranean Diet and Culinary Index (MediCul), a new tool, among community-dwelling individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). A total of sixty-eight participants (66 % female) aged 75·9 (sd 6·6) years, from the Study of Mental and Resistance Training study MCI cohort, completed the fifty-item MediCul at two time points, followed by a 3-d food record (FR). MediCul test-retest r..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Bernhard Baune Author

Grants

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia Dementia Research Grant

Awarded by NHMRC Program

Funding Acknowledgements

The original SMART trial was funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia Dementia Research Grant, project grant ID no. 512672 from 2008 to 2011. Additional funding for a research assistant position was provided by NHMRC Program grant ID no. 568969, and the project was supported by the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales. M.V. was supported by a University of New South Wales Vice Chancellor's Fellowship and consecutive NHMRC Clinical Career Development Fellowships. The original trial fulfilled a portion of the degree requirements for PhD for N. G. and C. S. This validity study did not receive financial support from any organisation and fulfilled a portion of the degree requirements for PhD for S. R.-V.