Evaluation of the nutrition literacy assessment questionnaire for college students and identification of the influencing factors of their nutrition literacy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nutrition health has become a major public health issue in both high and middle-income countries. Nutrition literacy is an important indicator to evaluate the effect of public health intervention and one of the important concepts in health promotion. Thus, this study aimed to verify the reliability and validity of a nutrition literacy assessment questionnaire (NLAQ) and investigate the associated factors of nutrition literacy among college students.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional online survey of college students from April to November 2022 in Wuhan (N = 774). We employed the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the reliability and validity. We used latent profile analysis to classify the nutrition literacy

SUBMITTER: Yan W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10617111 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature