Family Eating and Activity Habits Questionnaire – reliability verification

Czech version

Authors: I. Klimešová; M. Elfmark; P. Králová
Authors‘ workplace: Katedra přírodních věd v kinantropologii, Fakulta tělesné kultury UP, Olomouc
Published in: Čes-slov Pediat 2020; 75 (2): 78-81.
Category: Original Papers

Overview

Objective: To verify the reliability of the Czech version of the Family Eating and Activity Habits Questionnaire (SPZR).

Methods: A three-day and a three-week interval of test and re-rests were used to verify the stability of the SPZR questionnaire over time. The research sample consisted of 47 families with children aged 6–12 years.

Results: For individual family members (mother, father and child), the test-retest correlation coefficients for each scale and total score of the questionnaire ranged from 0.887 to 0.984 after 3 days and 0.781 to 0.980 after 3 weeks. The test-retest correlation coefficients of the total SPZR score for the whole family were after 3 days 0.982 and 0.980 after 3 weeks.

Conclusion: The questionnaire has a very good reliability.

Keywords:

obesogenic environment – test standardization – questionnaire SPZR – family environment assessment – test-retest

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