Yamin Ghahreman, Seyed Ahmad Hosseini, Saeed Hassani, Firouzeh Derakhshanpour, Mohammad Javad Hassani, Parnian Hosseini
An Investigation on Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Donepezil on Autistic Children in Winter 2020 in Gorgan's Taleghani Pediatric Hospital
Iranian journal of child neurology
due high media use young adults frequently exposed contradictory even erroneous nutrition information properly handle critically assess nutrition information young adults general population patient populations need adequate levels nutrition literacy currently lack suitable instruments measure nutrition literacy young adults 1825 years therefore aim study develop validate short nutrition literacy snutlit scale use age group development validation snutlit consisted six phases 1 item generation based literature 2 expert assessments evaluate content validity 3 cognitive interviews target population assess face validity readability 4 pretest reduce number items 5 validation survey assess dimensionality exploratory factor analyses internal reliability cronbach alpha construct criterion validity examining associations age gender education level health literacy general literacy dietary behaviors physical activity correlations anovas ttests 6 twoweek followup survey assess testretest reliability intraclass correlations starting initial pool 53 items expert assessments cognitive interviews led reformulation removal construction items young adults aged 1825 years participated cognitive interviews n 12 pretest n 101 validation survey n 300 reliability survey n 92 final snutlit consisted 11 items rated 5point scale distributed across two subscales ie information skills expert skills cronbach alpha values ranged 079 083 intraclass correlations 061079 p 0001 significant associations observed health literacy r 027 p 0001 general literacy numeracy rs 012 p 0046 education level rs 013 p 0025 findings indicate snutlit valid reliable tool assess nutrition literacy among young adults snutlit fills gap field offering short measure nutrition literacy may incorporated digital technology support nutrition care process