PMID- 28230779
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170705
LR  - 20220331
IS  - 2072-6643 (Electronic)
IS  - 2072-6643 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 2
DP  - 2017 Feb 21
TI  - Validity and Reliability of General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire for Adults 
      in Uganda.
LID - 10.3390/nu9020172 [doi]
LID - 172
AB  - This study sought to develop and validate a general nutrition knowledge 
      questionnaire (GNKQ) for Ugandan adults. The initial draft consisted of 133 items 
      on five constructs associated with nutrition knowledge; expert recommendations 
      (16 items), food groups (70 items), selecting food (10 items), nutrition and 
      disease relationship (23 items), and food fortification in Uganda (14 items). The 
      questionnaire validity was evaluated in three studies. For the content validity 
      (study 1), a panel of five content matter nutrition experts reviewed the GNKQ 
      draft before and after face validity. For the face validity (study 2), head 
      teachers and health workers (n = 27) completed the questionnaire before attending 
      one of three focus groups to review the clarity of the items. For the construct 
      and test-rest reliability (study 3), head teachers (n = 40) from private and 
      public primary schools and nutrition (n = 52) and engineering (n = 49) students 
      from Makerere University took the questionnaire twice (two weeks apart). Experts 
      agreed (content validity index, CVI > 0.9; reliability, Gwet's AC1 > 0.85) that 
      all constructs were relevant to evaluate nutrition knowledge. After the focus 
      groups, 29 items were identified as unclear, requiring major (n = 5) and minor (n 
      = 24) reviews. The final questionnaire had acceptable internal consistency 
      (Cronbach alpha > 0.95), test-retest reliability (r = 0.89), and differentiated (p < 
      0.001) nutrition knowledge scores between nutrition (67 +/- 5) and engineering (39 
      +/- 11) students. Only the construct on nutrition recommendations was unreliable 
      (Cronbach alpha = 0.51, test-retest r = 0.55), which requires further optimization. 
      The final questionnaire included topics on food groups (41 items), selecting food 
      (2 items), nutrition and disease relationship (14 items), and food fortification 
      in Uganda (22 items) and had good content, construct, and test-retest reliability 
      to evaluate nutrition knowledge among Ugandan adults.
FAU - Bukenya, Richard
AU  - Bukenya R
AD  - Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
      Urbana, IL 61801, USA. bukenya2@illinois.edu.
FAU - Ahmed, Abhiya
AU  - Ahmed A
AD  - Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. ahmed36@illinois.edu.
FAU - Andrade, Jeanette M
AU  - Andrade JM
AD  - School of Family and Consumer Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, 
      IL 61920, USA. jmevans@eiu.edu.
FAU - Grigsby-Toussaint, Diana S
AU  - Grigsby-Toussaint DS
AD  - Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
      Urbana, IL 61801, USA. dgrigs1@illinois.edu.
AD  - Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. dgrigs1@illinois.edu.
FAU - Muyonga, John
AU  - Muyonga J
AD  - Department of Food Technology and Human Nutrition, Makerere University, P.O. Box 
      7062, Kampala, Uganda. hmuyonga@yahoo.com.
FAU - Andrade, Juan E
AU  - Andrade JE
AD  - Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
      Urbana, IL 61801, USA. jandrade@illinois.edu.
AD  - Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. jandrade@illinois.edu.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Validation Study
DEP - 20170221
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Nutrients
JT  - Nutrients
JID - 101521595
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - *Diet
MH  - Dietetics/education
MH  - Female
MH  - *Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Nutritional Sciences
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Students
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires/*standards
MH  - Uganda
MH  - Universities
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC5331603
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Uganda
OT  - adults
OT  - nutrition knowledge questionnaire
OT  - validation
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2017/02/24 06:00
MHDA- 2017/07/06 06:00
PMCR- 2017/02/01
CRDT- 2017/02/24 06:00
PHST- 2016/12/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/02/10 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/02/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/02/24 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/02/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/07/06 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - nu9020172 [pii]
AID - nutrients-09-00172 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/nu9020172 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Nutrients. 2017 Feb 21;9(2):172. doi: 10.3390/nu9020172.