Open AccessConstruction of Knowledge Questionnaire Regarding Junk Food Consumption
Author(s) -
Suchandra Samanta Mondal,
Santosh Mukherjee,
Deb Prasad Sikdar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of health sciences and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2249-9571
DOI - 10.52403/ijhsr.20210615
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , medicine , questionnaire , test (biology) , readability , content validity , junk food , clinical psychology , statistics , psychometrics , pathology , mathematics , computer science , obesity , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , programming language
Aim: The present paper aims to discuss on the construction and validation of a survey tool for measuring knowledge of people of West Bengal regarding junk foods.Method: Questionnaire was selected as the data collection tool. The questionnaire was prepared on the basis of certain dimensions and initially it had 41 items. At first, the questionnaire was administered to a target population of 30 respondents. After the pre-test among 30 respondents the readability, discrimination indices, and difficulty indices were determined for ‘Knowledge’ questionnaire. Rejection criteria were set for each parameter and the final questionnaire was constructed with the items retained after validation. The reliability of the tool was confirmed by Test-Retest method.Result: Finally, the knowledge questionnaire retained 31 items. Reliability co-efficient was found to be 0.76090 which was significant.Conclusion: Validity and reliability of the knowledge questionnaire were well established. There were 31 items in the final questionnaire depending on the rejection criterion. The high reliability of the questionnaire was found. This questionnaire will help to find out the level of knowledge of people regarding junk food and its effects on health.Key words: Junk food, Food consumption, Knowledge.