Araitz Uskola, Blanca Puig
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics
Research in science education
eating behaviors healthy food choices associated food literacy huge impact ones health status reason increase food literacy way effectively help individuals make appropriate choices help maintain health diminish incidence noncommunicable diseases objective work test validate scale assess food literacy validation conducted sample 924 portuguese university students scale composed 50 items submitted exploratory confirmatory factors analysis final validated scale corresponded secondorder model global factor called food literacy retained 26 items distributed three factors f1literacy nutritional composition foods 10 items f2literacy labelling food choices 7 items f3literacy healthy eating practices 9 items internal consistency scale high alpha higher 09 pierson correlations three factors global also higher 09 conclusion present scale validated therefore utilized measure food literacy