OBJECTIVE: Amid concerns about the quality of young people's diets, this paper describes the development of a measure of healthy eating behaviour for use with adolescents. DESIGN: Items for the measure were selected from a larger pool on the basis of responses from a pilot study. The 23-item checklist was validated using measures of dietary fat and fibre intake, fruit and vegetable consumption, dietary restraint, nutrition knowledge and a measure of family income. SETTING: Participants came from seven secondary schools in the north-west of England. SUBJECTS: A total of 1822 adolescents aged between 13 and 16 y took part in the study, representing 84% of those invited to participate. RESULTS: Correlations between measures indicate a good level of convergent validity, and the checklist is also shown to have high internal and test-retest reliability. CONCLUSIONS: The focus on choices available to adolescents means that the checklist will provide a useful addition to food frequency-type approaches to the measurement of adolescent eating behaviour. SPONSORSHIP: This research was funded by the Medical Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council's Health Variations Programme.
OBJECTIVE: Amid concerns about the quality of young people's diets, this paper describes the development of a measure of healthy eating behaviour for use with adolescents. DESIGN: Items for the measure were selected from a larger pool on the basis of responses from a pilot study. The 23-item checklist was validated using measures of dietary fat and fibre intake, fruit and vegetable consumption, dietary restraint, nutrition knowledge and a measure of family income. SETTING:Participants came from seven secondary schools in the north-west of England. SUBJECTS: A total of 1822 adolescents aged between 13 and 16 y took part in the study, representing 84% of those invited to participate. RESULTS: Correlations between measures indicate a good level of convergent validity, and the checklist is also shown to have high internal and test-retest reliability. CONCLUSIONS: The focus on choices available to adolescents means that the checklist will provide a useful addition to food frequency-type approaches to the measurement of adolescent eating behaviour. SPONSORSHIP: This research was funded by the Medical Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council's Health Variations Programme.
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