TY - JOUR
T1 - Acceptability, internal consistency and test-retest reliability of scales to assess parental and nursery staff's self-efficacy, motivation and knowledge in relation to pre-school children's nutrition, oral health and physical activity
AU - Dias, Kaiseree
AU - White, James
AU - Metcalfe, Chris
AU - Kipping, Ruth
AU - Papadaki, Angeliki
AU - Jago, Russell
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - OBJECTIVE:
To determine the acceptability, internal consistency and test-retest reliability of self-efficacy, motivation and knowledge scales relating to pre-school children's nutrition, oral health and physical activity.
DESIGN:
An online questionnaire was completed twice with an interval of 7-11d.
SETTING:
Online questionnaires were sent to participants via email from nursery managers. The parent questionnaire was also available on the parenting website www.netmums.com.ParticipantsEighty-two parents and sixty-nine nursery staff from Bristol, UK who had and worked with 2-4-year-olds, respectively.
RESULTS:
Response rates were 86·3 and 86·0 % and missing data 15·9 and 14·5 % for the second administration of the parent and nursery staff questionnaires, respectively. Weighted κ coefficients for individual items mostly fell under the 'moderate' agreement category for the parental (75·0 %) and nursery staff (55·8 %) items. All self-efficacy and motivation scales had acceptable levels of internal consistency (Cronbach's α coefficients>0·7). The intraclass correlation coefficients for the self-efficacy, motivation and knowledge scales ranged between 0·48 and 0·82. Paired t tests found an increase between test and retest knowledge scores for the Nutrition Motivation (t=-2·91, df=81, P=0·00) and Knowledge (t=-3·22, df=81, P=0·00) scales in the parent questionnaire.
CONCLUSIONS:
Our findings demonstrate that the items and scales show good acceptability, internal consistency and test-retest reliability.
AB - OBJECTIVE:
To determine the acceptability, internal consistency and test-retest reliability of self-efficacy, motivation and knowledge scales relating to pre-school children's nutrition, oral health and physical activity.
DESIGN:
An online questionnaire was completed twice with an interval of 7-11d.
SETTING:
Online questionnaires were sent to participants via email from nursery managers. The parent questionnaire was also available on the parenting website www.netmums.com.ParticipantsEighty-two parents and sixty-nine nursery staff from Bristol, UK who had and worked with 2-4-year-olds, respectively.
RESULTS:
Response rates were 86·3 and 86·0 % and missing data 15·9 and 14·5 % for the second administration of the parent and nursery staff questionnaires, respectively. Weighted κ coefficients for individual items mostly fell under the 'moderate' agreement category for the parental (75·0 %) and nursery staff (55·8 %) items. All self-efficacy and motivation scales had acceptable levels of internal consistency (Cronbach's α coefficients>0·7). The intraclass correlation coefficients for the self-efficacy, motivation and knowledge scales ranged between 0·48 and 0·82. Paired t tests found an increase between test and retest knowledge scores for the Nutrition Motivation (t=-2·91, df=81, P=0·00) and Knowledge (t=-3·22, df=81, P=0·00) scales in the parent questionnaire.
CONCLUSIONS:
Our findings demonstrate that the items and scales show good acceptability, internal consistency and test-retest reliability.
KW - Childcare
KW - Nutrition
KW - Physical activity
KW - Pre-school children
KW - Surveys and questionnaires
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U2 - 10.1017/S1368980018004111
DO - 10.1017/S1368980018004111
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
C2 - 30761972
SN - 1368-9800
VL - 22
SP - 967
EP - 975
JO - Public Health Nutrition
JF - Public Health Nutrition
IS - 6
ER -