Validação transcultural do nutrition physical activity self assessment for child care

Abstract

Childhood obesity is increasingly present in schools and to be, in most cases, the place where children spend most of their day, can create an environment for prevention and intervention measures, with nutrition education programs and activities Physical properties. In this sense, the objective of the study is to make a validation and a cross-cultural adaptation of the instrument Go Nutrition Physical Activity Self Assessment for Child Care. This self-assessment tool was developed to assess the school context on nutritional status and physical activities with children from birth to five years of age. The stages of the validation process followed the recommendations proposed by Gjersing, Caplehorn and Clausen (2010): conceptual research, translation and re-translation, expert committee, pre-test, review, application with target audience and statistical analysis. According to the results, in the translation and re-translation phase, there was reliability in the final language with that of experts analyzed regarding Clarity of language, practical and theoretical relevance and showed that the items analyzed have good understanding and the questions with results below 75% were reformulated with the aim of improving language clarity. In the pre-test, language clarity was good and could go to the audience application. After this application, Cronbach's alpha showed satisfactory values for the items analyzed. Therefore, the conclusion is that it is possible to provide a comprehensive and reliable instrument to evaluate children's physical activity and nutrition practice in the context of Brazilian early childhood education.