Knowledge and food practices questionnaire: construction and validation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop and validate an instrument about nutritional knowledge and feeding practices to be used in children aged 7-11 years, based on the latest Brazilian Food Guide.

Methods

Review on the subject; instrument creation; content validity with two groups of judges: first, nutritionists and, after adjustments, a multidisciplinary group (content validity index [CVI]); FACE validity; reproducibility analysis (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC], level of agreement, and kappa [k]); internal consistency analysis (Cronbach's alpha[α]) and construct validity (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and exploratory factorial analysis). The sample was calculated, considering at least ten subjects for each question of the questionnaire.

Results

There was a final sample of 453 childr

SUBMITTER: da Silva AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9432235 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature