title: Nutrition self-efficacy assessment: development of a questionnaire and evaluation of reliability in African-American and Latino children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We aimed to develop tools that could be reliably used to evaluate self-efficacy for consuming vegetables and low-sugar foods and beverages for African American and Latino children living in inner-city communities.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 112 children, aged 8-11 years, identified by a parent as being either African-American or Latino, were recruited and administered questionnaires. Internal consistency, a measure of reliability, was assessed by calculating the Cronbach's alpha of test scores.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Cronbach's alpha exceeded the threshold of acceptability of 0.70 for the Authors' Vegetables Self-Efficacy Index, and all three Low-Sugar Self-Efficacy Indices, including the Reference Index, the Authors' Low-Sugar Food and Beverage Index, and the Low-Sugar Beverages Index.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We present internally consistent tools that could be reliably used to evaluate self-efficacy for consuming vegetables and low-sugar foods and beverages in 8-11-year-old African-American and Latino children from low socio-economic communities.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, Center for Weight and Health, University of California, Berkley, CA, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fleming
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D001628:Beverages; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000032:analysis; D002648:Child; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D009752:Nutritional Status; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014675:Vegetables
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates
keywords: African-American; Cronbach's alpha; Latino; children; internal consistency; questionnaires; self-efficacy; socio-economic index