Development and Implementation of the National Cancer Institute’s Food Attitudes and Behaviors Survey to Assess Correlates of Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Adults

Temitope O Erinosho, Courtney A Pinard, Linda C Nebeling, Richard P Moser, Abdul R Shaikh, Ken Resnicow, April Y Oh and Amy L Yaroch

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: Background: Low fruit and vegetable (FV) intake is a leading risk factor for chronic disease globally as well as in the United States. Much of the population does not consume the recommended servings of FV daily. This paper describes the development of psychosocial measures of FV intake for inclusion in the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s 2007 Food Attitudes and Behaviors Survey. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study among 3,397 adults from the United States. Results: Psychosocial scales with Cronbach’s alpha ≥0.68 were self-efficacy, social support, perceived barriers and benefits of eating FVs, views on vegetarianism, autonomous and controlled motivation, and preference for FVs. Conventional scales that were associated (p

Date: 2015
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