Attitude towards the Promotion of Healthy Eating among Secondary School Teachers-Construction and Validation of a Questionnaire

Health promotion activities in secondary schools are scarce and have little involvement of the teaching staff. Most often, activities are developed from the curriculum that appears in school materials, with little capacity for adaptation and innovation. The aim of this study was to construct and val...

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Published in:Nutrients 2022-05, Vol.14 (11), p.2271
Main Authors: Garrido-Fernández, Almudena, García-Padilla, Francisca María, Ramos-Pichardo, Juan Diego, Romero-Martín, Macarena, Sosa-Cordobés, Elena, Sánchez-Alcón, Miriam
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Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Behavior
Component reliability
Curricula
Eating
Educational aspects
educators
Eigenvalues
Evaluation
Factor analysis
Health aspects
Health promotion
Health surveys
healthy eating
High school teachers
High school teaching
Methods
Nutrition
Questionnaires
Schools
secondary school
Secondary schools
Surveys
Teachers
Teenagers
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Summary:Health promotion activities in secondary schools are scarce and have little involvement of the teaching staff. Most often, activities are developed from the curriculum that appears in school materials, with little capacity for adaptation and innovation. The aim of this study was to construct and validate a tool to find out teachers' attitudes towards activities to promote healthy eating in secondary schools. For this purpose, a descriptive study was conducted. The total sample of the study consisted of 200 teachers from secondary schools. Internal consistency was determined by Cronbach's alpha coefficient globally and by dimension, and with the corrected item-test correlation. The construct validity of the questionnaire was assessed by means of an exploratory factor analysis, for which the principal components method with Varimax rotation was used. A Likert-type scale with nine items and four response options about attitude was designed. The exploratory factor analysis showed a nine-factor solution, of which two had eigenvalues greater than 1. These two factors explained 63.4% of the variance. The Cronbach's alpha internal consistency index obtained for the global scale was 0.81, and 0.75 and 0.85 for each component. The results obtained with this structure confirmed an adequate reliability and validity of the questionnaire.
ISSN:2072-6643
2072-6643
DOI:10.3390/nu14112271