Measuring young women’s self-efficacy for healthy eating: initial development and validation of a new questionnaire
Measuring young women’s self-efficacy for healthy eating: initial development and validation of a new questionnaire
Healthy eating in women of childbearing age is critical to the health of future generations. Interventions that increase women’s dietary self-efficacy may be particularly effective at improving healthy eating. However, no validated tool exists to measure self-efficacy for healthy eating in this specific population. We therefore designed a new questionnaire (the 8-Item Self-Efficacy for Healthy Diet Scale) using a think-aloud study and expert panel consultation. We then pilot-tested the 8-Item Self-Efficacy for Healthy Diet Scale in an interviewer-administered survey of 94 women recruited primarily from community settings. The 8-Item Self-Efficacy for Healthy Diet Scale is an 8-item measure of self-efficacy for healthy eating with promising psychometric properties including internal consistency, convergent, criterion and divergent validity.
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Simmonds, Gregory
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Tinati, Tannaze
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Barker, Mary
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Bishop, Felicity L.
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20 April 2015
Simmonds, Gregory
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Tinati, Tannaze
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Barker, Mary
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Bishop, Felicity L.
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Simmonds, Gregory, Tinati, Tannaze, Barker, Mary and Bishop, Felicity L.
(2015)
Measuring young women’s self-efficacy for healthy eating: initial development and validation of a new questionnaire.
Journal of Health Psychology, 21 (11), .
(doi:10.1177/1359105315580464).
(PMID:25897043)
Abstract
Healthy eating in women of childbearing age is critical to the health of future generations. Interventions that increase women’s dietary self-efficacy may be particularly effective at improving healthy eating. However, no validated tool exists to measure self-efficacy for healthy eating in this specific population. We therefore designed a new questionnaire (the 8-Item Self-Efficacy for Healthy Diet Scale) using a think-aloud study and expert panel consultation. We then pilot-tested the 8-Item Self-Efficacy for Healthy Diet Scale in an interviewer-administered survey of 94 women recruited primarily from community settings. The 8-Item Self-Efficacy for Healthy Diet Scale is an 8-item measure of self-efficacy for healthy eating with promising psychometric properties including internal consistency, convergent, criterion and divergent validity.
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Accepted/In Press date: 24 February 2015
Published date: 20 April 2015
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/375243
ISSN: 1461-7277
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