Development of a scale of use, comprehension and attitudes in relationto nutrition labels in Spanish.

OBJECTIVE To describe the development of a reliable and valid measure of attitudes toward, and use and comprehen- sion of nutritional labels in Spanish speaking countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS The dimensions encompassed in this instrument are attitudes, comprehension and use, combining self-reports and objective measures of nutrition knowledge. Content validity, item analysis, repeat and internal reliability, and convergent and divergent validity were assessed in a pooled sample of 185 individuals. RESULTS Cronbach alpha coefficients (above 0.9) exhibit internal consistency. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the scale show good properties for convergent and divergent validity. CONCLUSIONS The final 25-item scale is a valid and reliable measure of use, comprehension and attitude towards nutrition labels for Spanish speaking populations.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Salud Pública de México

• Publication date

  2018-12-19

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.21149/8606PMID 30753774
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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