Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Initial Validation of Mi Nino: A Tool to Measure Food-Related Parenting Practices of Spanish-Speaking Parents with Young Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accurate measurement of food-related parenting practices is necessary to inform related interventions and program evaluation. Valid tools reflect cultural attributes that affect household food environments and feeding practices. Simple, unidirectional language adaptation approaches are insufficient to capture these attributes in assessment tools. My Child at Mealtime (MCMT) is a 27-item, validated, visually enhanced self-assessment tool to measure food-related parenting practices of low-income English-speaking parents of preschoolers.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to describe the cross-cultural adaptation of MCMT into its Spanish version Mi Niño a la Hora the Comer (Mi Niño) and to establish its face validity, factor structure, and internal consisten

SUBMITTER: Diaz Rios LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111596 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature