Nutrition self-efficacy assessment: designing and psychometric evaluation in a community-dwelling elderly population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Awareness of nutrition self-efficacy dimensions can enable healthcare providers to guide their use in screening and providing a context for positive changes such as in promoting a healthy lifestyle and quality care among elderly people.

Objectives

Developing an instrument for assessing nutrition self-efficacy among Iranian elderly population.

Methods

A sequential mixed exploratory design was applied to clarify and determine dimensions of nutrition self-efficacy in a community-dwelling elderly population in two phases. The first phase included a related literature review and a qualitative study. The validity and reliability of the tool were investigated in the second phase. The instrument's content validity was assessed by experts in nutrition self-efficacy'

SUBMITTER: Shamsalinia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6891959 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature