title: Developing a Questionnaire to Evaluate College Students' Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, Self-efficacy, and Environmental Factors Related to Canned Foods.
abstract: Develop a questionnaire to measure students' knowledge, attitude, behavior, self-efficacy, and environmental factors related to the use of canned foods.
  
  
  
  The Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior Model, Social Cognitive Theory, and Canned Foods Alliance survey were used as frameworks for questionnaire development. Cognitive interviews were conducted with college students (n = 8). Nutrition and survey experts assessed content validity. Reliability was measured via Cronbach α and 2 rounds (1, n = 81; 2, n = 65) of test-retest statistics. Means and frequencies were used.
  
  
  
  The 65-item questionnaire had a test-retest reliability of .69. Cronbach α scores were .87 for knowledge (9 items), .86 for attitude (30 items), .80 for self-efficacy (12 items), .68 for canned foods use (8 items), and .30 for environment (6 items).
  
  
  
  A reliable questionnaire was developed to measure perceptions and use of canned foods. Nutrition educators may find this questionnaire useful to evaluate pretest-posttest changes from canned foods-based interventions among college students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Electronic address: rickelle_richards@byu.edu.
authors.forename: Rickelle
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
authors.forename: Lora Beth
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
authors.forename: D Pauline
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
authors.forename: Dennis L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Eggett
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D057141:Food, Preserved; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009749:Nutrition Surveys / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D009752:Nutritional Status; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Knowledge–Attitude–Behavior Model; Social Cognitive Theory; canned foods; college students; nutrition survey