Abstract

NAVARRO CONTRERAS, Gabriela  and  REYES LAGUNES, Isabel. Psychometric Validation of the Mexican Adaptation of the Child Feeding Questionnaire. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2016, vol.6, n.1, pp.2337-2349. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.1016/s2007-4719(16)30054-0.

The Child Feeding Questionnaire developed by Birch, Fisher, Grimm-Thomas, Markey, & Sawyer, (2001) is a widely used mesurement to assess beliefs, actitudes and practices around child feeding. However, the psychometric characteristics of the CFQ for use with Mexican populations are unknown. The pupose of this stuydy was to test the reliability and validity of a modified version of the CFQ in mexican population. Prior to testing psychometric characteristics, the questionnaire was traslated into spanish usign a traslation-back-traslation method. Some adaptation were made, in order to make them culturally appropriate. Also three new items were added. The questionnaire was administered to 1157 mexican mothers of children aged 5-12 years. Constuct validity was assessed by principal componet factor analysis with varimax rotation, revealed the presence of eight major factors, which explain 59.99% of variance. Reliability was tested by Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and was aceptable for the eigth factors (a: .858). This modified eight factor CFQ appears to be a linguistically, and culturally appropriate instrument for assessing practices, attitudes and parental feeding beliefs in Mexican mother of 5 to12 years children.

Keywords : Child Feeding Questionnaire; Mexican Mothers; Construct Validity; Internal Consistency; Children.

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