Validating the Food Behavior Questions from the Elementary School SPAN Questionnaire

Thiagarajah, Krisha; Fly, Alyce D.; Hoelscher, Deanna M.; Bai, Yeon; Lo, Kaman; Leone, Angela; Shertzer, Julie A.

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2007.07.004

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“…As the algorithm assessing Spearman's correlation in IBM SPSS Statistics did not take into account tied values, Kendall's τ B correlations were computed, using the same methodology as Spearman's correlations, as they are appropriate to use with tied data (23) . Consistent with Thiagarajah et al's validation study of a food intake questionnaire (13) , Cohen's kappa (κ) was used to test the agreement between children's and parents' reporting of weekly consumption occasions. The lower bound of the 95 % CI of the κ estimate was used to categorize agreement and the same categorization of κ values as performed by Thiagarajah et al (13) was applied (24) to allow comparison.…”

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“…Another study found overall weaker associations of parent-child diet similarity when using FFQ than with food diaries (12) . Children can face difficulty in recalling the foods that they consumed when the time gap between reporting and food consumption is long (5,9,13,14) . Additionally, in the age range from 6 to 10 years, their reading abilities can differ extensively and portion size estimation represents a common challenge (5,9,13,15) .…”

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I did eat my vegetables. Agreement between parent and child food intake diaries

Rangelov

Marques‐Vidal

2016

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To assess the level of agreement between children and their parents when reporting a child's food consumption. Design: Cross-sectional study in which children and parents independently completed 7 d food diaries describing the foods and drinks the child consumed at every meal and snack. The association between child and parent reporting was assessed for nineteen food groups using Kendall's tau-b non-parametric correlations, Spearman's rank correlations, kappa coefficients and Lin's concordance measure of agreement. Results were also stratified by gender of the child and his/her grade at school. Setting: Households in Ticino, Switzerland, April-June 2014. Subjects: Two hundred and ninety-nine children aged 6-12 years and one of their parents participated, with 264 providing complete data (35 % completion rate). Results: Results showed a high level of agreement between child and parent reporting. Spearman correlations ranged from 0·55 (sauces) and 0·57 (fatty meat) to 0·80 (fruit), 0·83 (starchy foods) and 0·84 (pastries). All nineteen Spearman correlations were significant at the 0·001 level. Kendall's tau-b correlations ranged from 0·44 (fat meat) to 0·81 (puff pastry). Kappa values showed low to high levels of agreement, ranging from 0·15 (sweets) to 0·77 (puff pastry). Lin's concordance correlation coefficients ranged from 0·39 (whole grains) to 0·86 (puff pastry). Conclusions: When assessing the eating behaviour of children using a 7 d food diary, children's reports might be as reliable as their parents'.

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“…10,11 The low reliability of the Physical Activity Behavior subscale prompted investigator doubt regarding recall accuracy. While the KAN-Q poses behavioral questions about yesterday to enhance recall, those items cannot be assumed to reflect usual intake without multiple administrations to the same cohort to better reflect habitual consumption.…”

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Reliability of a Kid's Activity and Nutrition Questionnaire for School-Based SNAP-Ed Interventions as Part of a Tiered Development Process

LeGros

Hartz

Jacobs

2017

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

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Consequently, school-based assessments of children's nutrition and physical activity behaviors are central to understanding SNAP-Ed effectiveness. However, collecting this data can be daunting for states and implementing agencies. On the one hand, schools can provide optimal settings for the evaluation of obesity prevention programs: the audience is captive, class turnover is relatively low, and assessment can be incorporated into curricula. 2,3 Conversely, competing demands on the educational system and lack of top-down support may be powerful barriers to SNAP-Ed programming and evaluation, especially in under-resourced schools. 2,4 A 2013Institute of Medicine workshop offered educator perspectives on nutrition education that highlighted election politics, inadequate funding, lack of teacher training, and severely limited instruction time as persistent obstacles to obesity prevention in schools. 2 In terms of evaluation, measures perceived as intrusive, costly, or overly burdensome are more likely to be challenged

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“…The eating behavior was described by the number of times consuming fruits and vegetables on the previous day. Evidence has supported that the SPAN questionnaire has relatively good test-retest reliability with between the SPAN questionnaire and a 24-recall scale for vegetable and fruit items (Thiagarajah et al, 2008). In this study, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.73, and the item-item correlation coefficients ranged from 0.30 to 0.41, indicating that the fiveitem nutrition scale had acceptable reliability.…”

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“…Five items (See Appendix B) selected from the School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) questionnaire were used to assess children's eating behavior (Penkilo, George, & Hoelscher, 2008;Thiagarajah et al, 2008). The eating behavior was described by the number of times consuming fruits and vegetables on the previous day.…”

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Validating the Food Behavior Questions from the Elementary School SPAN Questionnaire

Cited by 120 publications

References 15 publications

I did eat my vegetables. Agreement between parent and child food intake diaries

I did eat my vegetables. Agreement between parent and child food intake diaries

Reliability of a Kid's Activity and Nutrition Questionnaire for School-Based SNAP-Ed Interventions as Part of a Tiered Development Process

Preliminary assessment of a school-based healthy lifestyle program among rural children.

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