Assessing factorial and convergent validity and reliability of a food behaviour checklist for Spanish-speaking participants in US Department of Agriculture nutrition education programmes

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1165-1176

  Banna, Jinan C ^a   Townsend, Marilyn S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Latinos; Low income; Nutrition; Surveys

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; POVERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL CARE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH LITERACY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; POVERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960118142     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980010003058     Document Type: Article

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