Progressing the development of a food literacy questionnaire using cognitive interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Food literacy is the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to meet food needs and determine intake and is conceptualised as eleven components under four domains of planning and managing, selecting, preparing, and eating. Previous measures of food literacy vary in their adherence to the conceptualisation and ability to capture totality of eating. This study aimed to determine items for inclusion and exclusion in a food literacy item pool and capture the general public's interpretation of everyday food literacy practices.

Design

Beginning with an item pool from previous studies, cognitive interviews were conducted using think-aloud and verbal probing methods. Data were first analysed for applicability, clarity, ambiguity and logic, then for emergent themes to ensur

SUBMITTER: Thompson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991617 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature