title: Assessing the Nutrition Literacy of Parents and Its Relationship With Child Diet Quality.
abstract: To estimate the reliability and validity of the Nutrition Literacy Assessment Instrument for Parents (NLit-P) and to investigate relationships among parental nutrition literacy, parental and child body mass index, and child diet quality (Healthy Eating Index).
  
  
  
  Cross-sectional study of 101 parent-child dyads that collected measures of socioeconomic status, nutrition literacy, 2 24-hour child diet recalls, and body mass index. Reliability of NLit-P was assessed by confirmatory factor analysis. Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression were used.
  
  
  
  Fair to substantial reliability was seen across 5 NLit-P domains, whereas Pearson correlations support concurrent validity for the NLit-P related to child diet quality and parental income, age, and educational attainment (P < .001). For every 1% increase in NLit-P, there was a 0.51 increase in child Healthy Eating Index (multivariate coefficient, 0.174; P < .001).
  
  
  
  The NLit-P demonstrates potential for measuring parental nutrition literacy, which may be an important educational target for improving child diet quality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS. Electronic address: hgibbs@kumc.edu.
authors.forename: Heather D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Gibbs
authors.affiliation: Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
authors.forename: Amy R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Kennett
authors.affiliation: Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
authors.forename: Elizabeth H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Kerling
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
authors.forename: Byron
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gajewski
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
authors.forename: Lauren T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Ptomey
authors.affiliation: Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.
authors.forename: Debra K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Sullivan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004032:Diet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D057220:Health Literacy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009753:Nutritive Value; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: body mass index; food habits; health literacy; patient education; pediatrics