Reliability and validity of Arabic version of revised general nutrition knowledge questionnaire on university students.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The current study evaluated the reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the revised general nutrition knowledge questionnaire (GNKQ-R) for adults.

Design

The eighty-eight-item English GNKQ-R was adapted into an eighty-six-item Arabic version. Four validation studies were conducted for internal (n 805) and external (n 106) reliability, construct validity between participants with (n 84) and without (n 88) nutrition background, convergent validity for associations between nutrition knowledge and demographic characteristics (n 750) and responsiveness to online nutrition information (n 55).

Setting

United Arab Emirates University in United Arab Emirates and Hashemite University in Jordan.

Participants

Undergraduate students aged 18 years and abo

SUBMITTER: Bataineh MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195470 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature