Development and validation of a tool to assess knowledge of healthy lifestyles in early grade school children

Objective Healthy habits during childhood has been of prime importance. We aimed to gather baseline information about health habits from children in kindergarten and first grade (typically ages 5–7). Our objectives were to validate the questionnaire in assessing health habits, as well as the electro...

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Vydáno v:BMC research notes Ročník 11; číslo 1; s. 225 - 9
Hlavní autoři: Surani, Salim R., Hesselbacher, Sean, Surani, Zoya, Mokhasi, Moinuddin, Surani, Saherish S., Guardiola, Jose, Quisenberry, Lauren, Surani, Sara S.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London BioMed Central 03.04.2018
BioMed Central Ltd
Springer Nature B.V
BMC
Témata:
Age groups
Agreements
Audience response system
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Childhood obesity
Children
Classroom response systems
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus
Education
Elementary school students
Gender
Health aspects
Human error
Hypotheses
Hypothesis testing
iClicker
Intervention
Kindergarten
Knowledge
Life Sciences
Lifestyles
Medicine/Public Health
Obesity
Questionnaires
Research Note
Response rates
Risk factors
School districts
Students
Validity
Validity
iClicker
Childhood obesity
Diabetes
Audience response system
ISSN:1756-0500, 1756-0500
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Shrnutí:Objective Healthy habits during childhood has been of prime importance. We aimed to gather baseline information about health habits from children in kindergarten and first grade (typically ages 5–7). Our objectives were to validate the questionnaire in assessing health habits, as well as the electronic audience response system, iClicker (MPS, Gordonsville, VA), in this age group. Results The questionnaire completed by 75 kindergarteners and 66 first graders. For the first graders, questions involving healthy choices were answered correctly 78% of the time (range 8–94%) and had 84% agreement on repeat testing (range 64–93%). Questions on diabetes were answered correctly 79% of the time (range 65–94%) and had 85% agreement on repeat testing. Crohnbach’s alpha was calculated to determine the reliability of the questionnaire: on the revised kindergarten questionnaire, this ranged from 0.79 to 0.81 on Day 1 and 0.84–0.97 on Day 5; for the first graders, this ranged 0.79–0.81 on Day 1 and 0.84–0.97 on Day 5. Both kindergarteners and first graders answered the simplest of the basic knowledge questions correctly > 80% of the time, with acceptable test–retest agreement. Additionally, these children demonstrated acceptable understanding of the use of the iClicker classroom response system.
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ISSN:1756-0500
1756-0500
DOI:10.1186/s13104-018-3332-7