Measuring Fruit and Vegetable Preferences Among 4th- and 5th-Grade Students

Domel, S B; Baranowski, Tom; Davis, Harry; Leonard, Sandra; Riley, Patricia L.; Baranowski, Janice

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“…This may be attributable to the fact that only two or three items were used to measure each construct. Previous studies using more items per scale reported generally higher Cronbach a values 19,20,22,35 . However, these studies mainly focused upon a smaller selection of potential determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption in children 19,20,22 .…”

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“…Previous studies using more items per scale reported generally higher Cronbach a values 19,20,22,35 . However, these studies mainly focused upon a smaller selection of potential determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption in children 19,20,22 . In questionnaire development there is always a trade-off between precision and extensiveness within potentially important constructs and the wish to include measures of as many potentially important constructs as possible.…”

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Reliability and validity of a questionnaire to measure personal, social and environmental correlates of fruit and vegetable intake in 10–11-year-old children in five European countries

Bourdeaudhuij

Due

et al. 2005

Public Health Nutr.

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Objectives: To investigate the internal consistency of the scales and the test -retest reliability and predictive validity of behaviour theory-based constructs measuring personal, social and environmental correlates of fruit and vegetable intake in 10 -11-year-old children. Design: Test-retest with one-week interval. Setting: Five European countries: Norway, Spain, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium. Subjects: Three hundred and twenty-six children completed the questionnaire during class hours. Results: For the total sample across all countries, the test -retest reliability was good to very good (intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) . 0.60) for 12 out of the 15 fruit constructs and also for 12 out of the 15 vegetable constructs. Acceptable ICCs, ranging between 0.50 and 0.59, were found for the remaining constructs. Test-retest reliability was comparable across countries. Only in Portugal were some significantly lower ICCs found for some constructs (knowledge and barriers related to fruit, general self-efficacy related to fruit and vegetables) compared with the other countries. Cronbach's a values were moderate to high (range 0.52 to 0.89) with the exception of the general self-efficacy scale, which had a value below 0.50 for both fruit (a ¼ 0.42) and vegetables (a ¼ 0.49). Spearman correlations with intake ranged between 2 0.16 and 0.54 for personal determinants and between 0.05 and 0.38 for environmental determinants. Compared with other studies, predictive validity can be considered moderate to good. Conclusions: The questionnaire provides a reliable, valid and easy-to-administer tool for assessing personal, social and environmental factors of potential influence on fruit and vegetable intake in 10-11-year-olds.

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confidence: 74%

Reliability and validity of a questionnaire to measure personal, social and environmental correlates of fruit and vegetable intake in 10–11-year-old children in five European countries

Bourdeaudhuij

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et al. 2005

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Fruit and vegetable intake was also measured as the usual/habitual intake (over the last three months) with food frequency questions. Most other studies measured actual intake with a single 24-hour recall 6,21 or with 3-7 days of recording 10,12,13,17,20 ; only one other study measured intake by food frequency questions 14 . All other variables, besides preferences and accessibility, were correlated to the children's intake, but in the multiple regression analysis, because of their correlation with other constructs, their contribution to explaining the variance diminished.…”

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Correlates of fruit and vegetable intake among Norwegian schoolchildren: parental and self-reports

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Klepp

2004

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Objectives: To identify correlates of 6th and 7th graders' (age 10-12 years) fruit and vegetable intake, to investigate parent -child correlations of fruit and vegetable intake, and to compare parents' and children's reports of children's accessibility, skills and preferences with respect to fruit and vegetables. Design: The results presented are based on the baseline survey of the 'Fruits and Vegetables Make the Marks Project', where 38 schools participated. Setting: Fruit and vegetable intake was measured by food frequency questions. Theoretical factors, based on Social Cognitive Theory, potentially correlated to intake were measured, including behavioural skills, accessibility, modelling, intention, preferences, self-efficacy and awareness of 5-a-day recommendations. Subjects: In total, 1950 (participation rate 85%) 6th and 7th graders and 1647 of their parents participated. Results: Overall, 34% of the variance in the pupils' reported fruit and vegetable intake was explained by the measured factors. The strongest correlates to fruit and vegetable intake were preferences and accessibility. The correlation between the children's and their parents' fruit and vegetable intake was 0.23. The parents perceived their children's accessibility to be better than what was reported by the children (P , 0.01), while the children reported their skills to be better than what was perceived by their parents (P , 0.01).

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“…The food preference response categories were: Never had it, Don't like it, Like it a little, and Like it a lot (Domel et al, 1993). Additionally, they used the PDA to answer a food frequency questionnaire on how often they consumed each of the 48 food items during the previous week (Cullen, Baranowski T., Baranowski J., Hebert & Moore, 1999).…”

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Mixed foods are similarly categorized by 8–13 year old children

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Food search in a computerized 24 hour recall (24hdr) for children should be easiest when the categories reflect children's categorization of foods, in contrast to professional categories. This study assessed how 8-13 year old children categorized and labeled mixed foods (e.g. fried rice, lasagna), and how these were influenced by child characteristics. A set of 48 cards with pictures and names of mixed foods from 14 professionally defined food groups was sorted by each child into piles of similar foods. Participants (n= 146), including 8 to13 year old 130 English speaking, and 16 Spanish speaking children, attended data collection in the summer, 2006. One way ANOVA, pairwise comparisons and Robinson matrices for identification of clusters were used. Children created an average of 10.5 (± 5.5) piles with 6.0 (±4.1) cards per pile. No substantial differences in Robinson clustering were detected across subcategories for each of the demographic characteristics, body mass index, or 6-n-propylthiouracil sensitivity. For the majority of the piles, children provided "Taxonomic-Professional" (26.0%) labels, such as Vegetables, Sandwiches and Drinks, or "Specificfood item" (23.0%) labels, i.e. the name of the food. These categories may be used to facilitate mixed food search in a computerized 24hdr for children in this age group.

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Measuring Fruit and Vegetable Preferences Among 4th- and 5th-Grade Students

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Reliability and validity of a questionnaire to measure personal, social and environmental correlates of fruit and vegetable intake in 10–11-year-old children in five European countries

Reliability and validity of a questionnaire to measure personal, social and environmental correlates of fruit and vegetable intake in 10–11-year-old children in five European countries

Correlates of fruit and vegetable intake among Norwegian schoolchildren: parental and self-reports

Mixed foods are similarly categorized by 8–13 year old children

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