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Valid and reliable measures of cognitive behaviors toward fruits and vegetables for children aged 9 to 11 years
- Source :
- Journal of nutrition education and behavior. 43(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Objective: To examine reliability of validity-tested instruments measuring fruit and vegetable (FV) preference and self-efficacy (SE) for and attitude (AT) toward cooking. Methods: In Santa Fe, New Mexico, following cognitive interviews with 123 fourth- and fifth-graders, surveys were administered twice, less than 2 weeks apart, to students in 16 classrooms without intervening nutrition education. Results were assessed using Pearson correlation coefficient, Cronbach a, marginal homogeneity, Wilcoxon, and paired t tests. Results: Individual test-retest scores were significantly (P < .001) correlated (n ¼ 344; 72.9% Hispanic); r ¼ 0.80 (SE), 0.82 (AT), and 0.88 (FV). Cronbach a was $ 0.74 for all survey administrations. Classroom test-retest scores were significantly correlated (SE r ¼ 0.66, AT r ¼ 0.88, and FV r ¼ 0.92). Self-efficacy and AT toward cooking were higher in girls (P < .001). Conclusions and Implications: Validity-tested 8-item SE, 6-item AT, and 16-item FV surveys showed internal consistency and test-retest reliability and are suitable for impact assessment of cooking-based education interventions, specifically Cooking with Kids.
- Subjects :
- Male
Wilcoxon signed-rank test
Psychometrics
Nutrition Education
New Mexico
Health Behavior
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Marginal homogeneity
Child Nutrition Sciences
Sensitivity and Specificity
Statistics, Nonparametric
Interviews as Topic
Food Preferences
Cronbach's alpha
Internal consistency
Vegetables
Medicine
Humans
Cooking
Sex Distribution
Child
Nutrition and Dietetics
business.industry
Data Collection
Reproducibility of Results
Cognition
Self Efficacy
Fruits and vegetables
Fruit
Female
business
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Social psychology
Attitude to Health
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18782620
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of nutrition education and behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a4c12412d6dfc3ee9f42c73413399894