Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED)
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Title: | Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED) |
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Authors: | Martínez-García, Alba | Trescastro-López, Eva María | Galiana-Sánchez, María Eugenia | Llorens-Ivorra, Cristobal | Pereyra-Zamora, Pamela |
Research Group/s: | Grupo Balmis de Investigación en Salud Comunitaria e Historia de la Ciencia |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Enfermería Comunitaria, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia |
Keywords: | Food environment | Measurement | Validation study | Surveys and questionnaires | Perception | Nutrition environment measures surveys | Spain |
Knowledge Area: | Enfermería |
Issue Date: | 24-Oct-2020 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Citation: | Martínez-García A, Trescastro-López EM, Galiana-Sánchez ME, Llorens-Ivorra C, Pereyra-Zamora P. Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey to the Mediterranean Spanish Context (NEMS-P-MED). Nutrients. 2020; 12(11):3257. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12113257 |
Abstract: | Individuals’ perceptions of their food environments are a mediator between exposure to the environment and people’s interaction with it. The Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys (NEMS) are valid and reliable measures to assess food environments. In Spain, there is no adapted instrument to measure the perceived obesogenic environment. This article aims to adapt and evaluate the Perceived Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for a Spanish context (NEMS-P-MED). The Spanish version has 32 questions to measure the perception about availability, accessibility and marketing of 3 types of environment: home, shops and restaurants. We assess feasibility, construct validity and internal consistency reliability through a sample of 95 individuals. The internal consistency was acceptable for most items (Cronbach’s alpha coefficients range from 0.6 to 0.9), similar to that of the original scale. The NEMS-P-MED has been shown to be valid and, on certain items reliable, and was useful to assess the population’s perceptions of the food environment in the home, restaurants and food stores in a Spanish context. Adapting standardized measurement tools to specific contexts to assess the perceived and observed characteristics of food environments may facilitate the development of effective policy interventions to reduce excess weight. |
Sponsor: | AMG was funded by a predoctoral fellowship offered to trainee researchers from the University of Alicante (UAFPU2017-047). This research was funded by Office of the Vice President of Research and Knowledge Transfer of the University of Alicante (GRE14-20) and by Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Spain) (HAR2017-82366-C2-2-P). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/109928 |
ISSN: | 2072-6643 |
DOI: | 10.3390/nu12113257 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12113257 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - BALMIS - Artículos de Revistas INV - SALUD - Artículos de Revistas INV - DANuC - Artículos de Revistas |
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