Artículo de revista
Validation of an instrument to measure food practices in chilean families of school children aged 4-7 years Validación de un instrumento para evaluar prácticas alimentarias en familias chilenas de escolares de 4 a 7 años
Fecha
2013Registro en:
Nutricion Hospitalaria, Volumen 28, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1961-1970
02121611
16995198
10.3305/nh.2013.28.6.6859
Autor
Lera Marques, Lydia
Salinas, Judith
Fretes, Gabriela
Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás
Institución
Resumen
Introduction: It is necessary to assess family food habits in school children to cope with infant obesity. Objective: Designing and validation of an instrument to measure food habits and food knowledge in Chilean preschool and school families based on dietary guidelines. Methods: A study in 30 preschool and school-age parents was carried-out. A questionnaire to measure food habits and food knowledge in parents was elaborated by researchers considering an expert group opinion. This questionnaire was applied twice with a 15 days interval, evaluating temporal stability, internal consistency and inter-personal agreement. Afterwards, the questionnaire was applied to 59 parents calculating the internal consistency of the instrument. Results: The questionnaire had 55 questions in 4 sections. The instrument had questions about food and nutrition information about the families. A good interpersonal agreement resulted for almost all the questions about food and nutrition information (0.5-1.0). T