Elizabeth H Ruder, Barbara Lohse, Diane C Mitchell, Leslie Cunningham-Sabo
Parent Food and Eating Behavior Assessments Predict Targeted Healthy Eating Index Components
Journal of nutrition education and behavior
valid reliable measures important understanding implementation physical activity approaches schools study purpose examine psychometric properties measures individuallevel constructs knowledge attitudes outcome expectations selfefficacy innovativeness support context implementing schoolbased physical activity approaches collected data sample elementary school employees administrators classroom teachers physical educators support staff urban school district southeast texas confirmatory factor analysis cfa models used examine structural validity also examined correlations constructs assess discriminant convergent validity last used cfabased approach examine scale reliability analytic sample consisted 205 employees cfa results individual measure revealed goodfitting models measures 2df005 rmsea008 cfi090 tli090 srmr007 combined model included measures also indicated good fit across indices 2306485 p0001 rmsea005 cfi093 tli092 srmr007 correlations constructs 070 one construct innovativeness demonstrated moderate correlations support classroombased physical activity approaches 030 addition reliability point estimates 070 measures tested study found good reliability well good structural discriminant convergent validity measures useful efforts better understand individuallevel constructs relate implementation behaviors physical activity approaches schools