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ArticlePublic health nutrition2019

Measuring nutritional knowledge using Item Response Theory and its validity in European adolescents.

Thanise Sabrina Souza Santos, Cristina Julian, Dalton Francisco de Andrade, Betzabeth Slater Villar, Raffaela Piccinelli, Marcela González-Gross, Fréderic Gottrand, Odysseas Androutsos, Mathilde Kersting, Nathalie Michels and 7 more

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Thanise Sabrina Souza SantosPublic Health Faculty, University of São Paulo, Av. Dr Arnaldo 715, Cerqueira César, São Paulo - SP, 01246-904, Brazil.
Cristina JulianGrowth, Exercise, NUtrition and Development (GENUD) Research Group, Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón (IIS Aragón) and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Nutrición y la Obesidad (CIBEROBN), Zaragoza, Spain.
Dalton Francisco de AndradeDepartment of Informatics and Statistics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Betzabeth Slater VillarPublic Health Faculty, University of São Paulo, Av. Dr Arnaldo 715, Cerqueira César, São Paulo - SP, 01246-904, Brazil.
Raffaela PiccinelliCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Rome, Italy.
Marcela González-GrossDepartment of Health and Human Performance, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Nutrición y la Obesidad (CIBEROBN), Madrid, Spain.
Fréderic GottrandDepartment of Pediatrics, Regional Hospital Center, University of Lille, Lille, France.
Odysseas AndroutsosDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Mathilde KerstingResearch Department of Child Nutrition, Pediatric University Clinic, Bochum, Germany.
Nathalie MichelsDepartment of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Inge HuybrechtsNutritional Epidemiology Group (NEP), International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
Kurt WidhalmDivision of Nutrition and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Dénes MolnárDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Pécs Medical School, Pécs, Hungary.
Ascensión MarcosInstitute of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition, Spanish National Research Council (ICTAN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Manuel J Castillo-GarzónDepartment of Physiology, Medicine School, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Luis A MorenoGrowth, Exercise, NUtrition and Development (GENUD) Research Group, Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón (IIS Aragón) and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Nutrición y la Obesidad (CIBEROBN), Zaragoza, Spain.
HELENA Study Group

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo analyse the Nutritional Knowledge Test (NKT) using Item Response Theory (ITR) analysis and to assess the construct validity of the Nutritional Knowledge Scale (NKTS) and its associations with adolescent food group consumption and nutritional biomarkers.

designCross-sectional study.

settingMulticentre investigation conducted in ten European cities.ParticipantsAdolescents aged 12·5-17·5 years (n 3215) who completed over 75 % of the NKT.

resultsFactor analysis indicated that the NKT can be analysed with a one-dimensional model. Eleven out of twenty-three items from the NKT presented adequate parameters and were selected to be included in the NKTS. Nutrition knowledge was positively associated with consumption of fruits, cereals, dairy products, pulses, meat and eggs, and fish, as well as with blood concentrations of vitamin C, β-carotene, n-3 fatty acids, holo-transcobalamin, cobalamin and folate; nutrition knowledge was negatively associated with intake of olives and avocado, alcohol and savoury snacks.

conclusionsThe NKTS assessed nutritional knowledge adequately and it is proposed as a new tool to investigate this subject in future studies.

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeNutrition AssessmentAdolescentChildCross-Sectional StudiesDietEuropeFemaleHumansMaleNutritional StatusPsychometricsDietKnowledgeNutritionPsychometricsScales

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PMID30501683
PMCPMC10260635

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