Development and Validation of Nutrition Literacy Questionnaire for Chinese Pre-School Children

Background: This study aims to develop and validate the Nutrition Literacy Questionnaire for Chinese Pre-school Children (NLQ-PSC). Methods: The reliability of the questionnaire was determined by internal consistency, the construct validity was assessed by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and the content validity was assessed by the Pearson correlation coefficient. In order to analyze the ap-plication of NLQ-PSC, we conducted a cross-sectional study among 790 pre-school children. Results: From the literature review and qualitative methods, NLQ-PSC was developed, including 2 di-mension of knowledge and 4 practice dimensions. NLQ-PSC questionnaire had good reliability and validity. The average NLQ-PSC score of all participants was 64.111.0, and we found that older children, girl, children who had well-educated parents presented higher nutrition literacy. Conclusions: NLQ-PSC had been validated and have shown good reliability and validity, and it could be con-sidered as a reliable tool to assess Chinese preschool children.