Validity and Reliability of a Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire in an Adult Student Population
| Autor: | Fatima Ismail, Roula Barake, Nadine Ibrahim, Dima AlKaed |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male 0301 basic medicine Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Adult population Medicine (miscellaneous) Validity Nutrition knowledge Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences symbols.namesake Cronbach's alpha Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Students Reliability (statistics) Student population 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics Reproducibility of Results Nutrition Surveys Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient Test (assessment) Kuwait symbols Female Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 50:718-723 |
| ISSN: | 1499-4046 |
| Popis: | To assess the validity and reliability of the Kuwait Adult Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire (KANKQ) in adult students as an initial step to validation in the general adult population.Participants (n = 253; aged ≥21 years) were categorized based on academic background and designated into groups known to differ in nutrition knowledge. Participants completed the questionnaire twice. Independent-samples t test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and Cronbach α were used to assess reliability and validity (P .05).Participants with health-related (n = 144) and nutrition-training backgrounds (n = 58) scored significantly higher than did those without them (n = 109 and 178, respectively; P .001), indicating good construct validity of the KANKQ. Test-retest reliability (r = .67; P .001) and internal consistency (α = .81) of the questionnaire were moderate to high.Further testing of the KANKQ in workplaces and public areas is required for validation in the general adult population. Applicability to neighboring countries of similar background is warranted. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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