Motivation to Prepare Healthy Foods Questionnaire

Brazilian Cooking Skills Questionnaire evaluation of using/cooking and consumption of fruits and vegetables

“…There is a lack of consensus on how to best evaluate cooking skills and healthy eating outcomes in young adults and whether to attribute limited cooking to a lack of skills or to other social factors [4,514,15]. Validated questionnaires that measure the use of cooking skills were identified [2,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Factor analysis of cooking skills questionnaires was applied to explore the constructs or emerging hypothesis that underpin the construct to be measured or reduce the number of items [16,[18][19][20][21][22]25].…”

“…Validated questionnaires that measure the use of cooking skills were identified [2,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Factor analysis of cooking skills questionnaires was applied to explore the constructs or emerging hypothesis that underpin the construct to be measured or reduce the number of items [16,[18][19][20][21][22]25]. This analysis is an interdependent technique that define the fundamental structure among a set of variables [26].…”

“…This analysis is an interdependent technique that define the fundamental structure among a set of variables [26]. Two of these questionnaires used exclusively the exploratory factor analysis [16,25] and three used the confirmatory factor analysis to test how well the questionnaire items represented the theoretical constructs of the current study [19,20,22]. Some of these cooking skills questionnaires contain references to the underpinning theory which the traits, such as attitutes and behaviours are built on.…”

“…Some of these cooking skills questionnaires contain references to the underpinning theory which the traits, such as attitutes and behaviours are built on. The theoretical basis of many of theses measurements were grounded in the concept of 'Food Agency' [20] or Self-Determination Theory [19,22] or Social Cognitive Theory [16,25]. It is noteworthy, however that cooking from scratch was a key variable identified as common in some articles [16,[20][21][22]25].…”

“…The theoretical basis of many of theses measurements were grounded in the concept of 'Food Agency' [20] or Self-Determination Theory [19,22] or Social Cognitive Theory [16,25]. It is noteworthy, however that cooking from scratch was a key variable identified as common in some articles [16,[20][21][22]25]. Bailey et al [22] developed a cooking skills evaluation questionnaire based on selfdetermination theory and identified some health-related attitudes and motivations, but did not identify what health measures or indicators for evaluating cooking skills could be used, such as, the use of vegetables in recipes and meal planning.…”