Development of an Assessment Tool to Measure Healthy Eating in Navajo Children and Their Families.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To estimate the efficacy of interventions to improve healthy eating, valid measures are essential. Although simple dietary intake tools have been developed with other populations, few have been culturally tailored and assessed for validity and reliability among Navajo.

Objectives

This study aimed to develop a simple dietary intake tool tailored to Navajo culture, derive healthy eating indices, and assess their validity and reliability in Navajo children and adults and to describe the process used to develop this tool.

Methods

A picture-sort tool using typically consumed foods was developed. Elementary school children and family members provided qualitative feedback in focus groups, used to refine the tool. Next, school-aged children and adults completed ass

SUBMITTER: Beresford SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10192404 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature