title: Differences in eating pattern labels between maintainers and nonmaintainers in the Women's Health Initiative.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe how a sample of women in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial (WHIDM) labeled a healthy eating pattern and to compare these labels to their dietary maintenance.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants completed a food frequency questionnaire and were divided into two maintenance groups, based on the percentage of energy derived from fat in their diets. Individual, semistructured interviews with the same subjects elicited information on labels they use to describe a healthy eating pattern.
  
  
  METHODS
  Subjects were 100 postmenopausal women, 50 to 79 years of age, free of breast and colorectal cancer, and participating in a dietary intervention that consisted of 20% or less energy from fat.
  
  
  METHODS
  Percentage of energy from fat in the diet and labels used to define a healthy eating pattern.
  
  
  METHODS
  Multivariate analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The label "consistent/patterned" was a predictor of dietary nonmaintenance (p <.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Future studies should use this information to re-educate nonmaintainers on compliance issues.
authors.affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hopkins
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Burrows
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Bowen
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Tinker
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D058870:Food, Organic; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D010349:Patient Compliance; D017698:Postmenopause; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016387:Women's Health