Nutrition self-efficacy assessment: development of a questionnaire and evaluation of reliability in african-american and latino children.

Auteur(s) :
Sharma S., Robertson LJ., Fleming S.
Date :
Mai, 2013
Source(s) :
J HUM NUTR DIET. # p
Adresse :
The Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, Center for Weight and Health, University of California, Berkley, CA, USA.

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BACKGROUND: We aimed to develop tools that could be reliably used to evaluate self-efficacy for consuming vegetables and low-sugar foods and beverages for African American and Latino children living in inner-city communities.

METHODS: A total of 112 children, aged 8-11 years, identified by a parent as being either African-American or Latino, were recruited and administered questionnaires. Internal consistency, a measure of reliability, was assessed by calculating the Cronbach's alpha of test scores.

RESULTS: Cronbach's alpha exceeded the threshold of acceptability of 0.70 for the Authors' Vegetables Self-Efficacy Index, and all three Low-Sugar Self-Efficacy Indices, including the Reference Index, the Authors' Low-Sugar Food and Beverage Index, and the Low-Sugar Beverages Index.

CONCLUSIONS: We present internally consistent tools that could be reliably used to evaluate self-efficacy for consuming vegetables and low-sugar foods and beverages in 8-11-year-old African-American and Latino children from low socio-economic communities.

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