Assessing the Nutrition Literacy of Parents and Its Relationship With Child Diet Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the reliability and validity of the Nutrition Literacy Assessment Instrument for Parents (NLit-P) and to investigate relationships among parental nutrition literacy, parental and child body mass index, and child diet quality (Healthy Eating Index).

Methods

Cross-sectional study of 101 parent-child dyads that collected measures of socioeconomic status, nutrition literacy, 2 24-hour child diet recalls, and body mass index. Reliability of NLit-P was assessed by confirmatory factor analysis. Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression were used.

Results

Fair to substantial reliability was seen across 5 NLit-P domains, whereas Pearson correlations support concurrent validity for the NLit-P related to child diet quality and parental income, age,

SUBMITTER: Gibbs HD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4931947 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature