Development and test-retest reliability of a nutrition knowledge questionnaire for primary-school children.
Public Health Nutr
; 15(9): 1630-8, 2012 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate a web-based nutritional knowledge questionnaire for primary-school children.DESIGN:
Children's nutritional knowledge was assessed in five domains healthy choices (twenty-seven items), estimated recommended portions/servings (eight items), nutrient content (five items), main food function (five items) and categorization of food items (eight items).SETTING:
The questionnaires were completed in school.SUBJECTS:
A convenience sample of 576 Belgian children (aged 7-12 years) from fourteen primary schools completed the questionnaire once, 386 completed the questionnaire twice.RESULTS:
Healthy choices could be answered correctly by 73 % of the children, nutrients by 59 %, food categorization by 49 %, main function by 38 % and portion estimation by 36 %. Children's test-retest intra-class correlations were 0·75 for healthy choices, 0·33 for nutrients, 0·61 for food categorization, 0·44 for main function, 0·47 for portion estimation and 0·76 for the total scale. The intra-class correlation was lower in the youngest age group (grade 2 0·51, grade 4 0·65, grade 6 0·66). The total score was significantly lower in the retest. The instrument was in general positively evaluated by the children.CONCLUSIONS:
The instrument is a promising, practical, inexpensive tool with acceptable test-retest reliability in fourth and sixth graders.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Fenómenos Fisiológicos Nutricionales Infantiles
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Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud
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Encuestas y Cuestionarios
Tipo de estudio:
Qualitative_research
Límite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Public Health Nutr
Asunto de la revista:
CIENCIAS DA NUTRICAO
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2012
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Bélgica