The validation of a food label literacy questionnaire for elementary school children.

Autor: Reynolds JS; Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Derby, CT 06418, USA., Treu JA, Njike V, Walker J, Smith E, Katz CS, Katz DL
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of nutrition education and behavior [J Nutr Educ Behav] 2012 May-Jun; Vol. 44 (3), pp. 262-6. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Mar 09.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2011.09.006
Abstrakt: Objective: To determine the reliability and validity of a 10-item questionnaire, the Food Label Literacy for Applied Nutrition Knowledge questionnaire.
Methods: Participants were elementary school children exposed to a 90-minute school-based nutrition program. Reliability was assessed via Cronbach α and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Validity was assessed comparing the questionnaire's food choices using an objective metric of nutrition quality, the Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI), via t test. Statistical significance was set at .05.
Results: Four hundred ninety-nine children participated, 51% were female, and the average age was 8.6 (± 0.9) years. Cronbach α = .77 and ICC = 0.68 (between administrations) were observed. ONQI scores of correct responses were significantly higher when compared to the ONQI scores of incorrect responses (27.4 ± 9.4 vs 16.2 ± 9.4; P = .01).
Conclusions and Implications: The Food Label Literacy for Applied Nutrition Knowledge questionnaire was found to be both reliable and a valid measure of food label literacy in children taught the Nutrition Detectives program.
(Copyright © 2012 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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