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. 2021 Jun 29;13(7):2242.
doi: 10.3390/nu13072242.

Self-Care Instruments to Measure Nutrition Practices in Children and Parents: Psychometric Analysis

Lisa R Pawloski  1 , Jean B Moore  2 , Patricia Treffinger  3 , Heibatollah Baghi  2 , Kathleen Gaffney  2 , Sonia Jaimovich  4 , Cecilia Campos  4 , Kevin M Curtin  1
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Self-Care Instruments to Measure Nutrition Practices in Children and Parents: Psychometric Analysis

Lisa R Pawloski et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to evaluate the psychometric properties of English and Spanish instruments that measure the nutrition behavior and practices of children and their parents. Orem's self-care deficit nursing theory was used in this methodological study. A convenience sample of 333 children and 262 mothers participated from two schools in Washington, D.C. and two schools in Santiago, Chile. Principal component analysis indicated three component per instrument corresponding to Orem's Theory of operations demonstrating construct validity of the instrument. The study findings showed evidence for validity and reliability of the English and Spanish versions and indicated that the instruments appropriately represented Orem's operations. The results have implications for the development of health behavior measurement instruments that are valid, reliable, designed for children, culturally appropriate, and efficient. Measuring the nutrition behavior of children and parents is critical for determining the effectiveness of nutrition intervention programs. Furthermore, instruments are needed so that researchers can compare corresponding child and parent behaviors or compare behaviors across cultures.

Keywords: Chile; Orem’s self-care; children; nutrition behavior instrument; parents.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.

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