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Construction of Nutrition Literacy Indicators for College Students in Taiwan: A Delphi Consensus Study
1Department of Health Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
Objective:
To use the Delphi process to select nutrition literacy (NL) indicators for Taiwan college students.
Design:
Initial formulation of 8 principal indicators and 77 subindicators, followed by a 2-round Delphi survey and final selection of indicators.
Participants:
A total of 28 nutrition experts selected through snowball sampling; 100% response rate.
Main Outcome Measures:
An expert panel scored and ranked NL themes and indicators for relevance, representativeness, and importance.
Analysis:
Quantitative analysis. For principal indicators, the defined cutoff was mean (relevance and representativeness) > 4 and SD < 1. For subindicators, screening criteria were: (1) >20 experts ranked the nutrition theme's importance in the top 50% of the 12 themes; (2) mean (relevance and representativeness) > 4 and SD < 1 and >20 experts ranked the indicator's importance in the top 50% of all indicators within a domain.
Results:
Consensus was reached on 8 principal indicators and 28 subindicators in 8 themes, including 10 in understand, 8 in analyze, 5 in appraise, and 5 in apply.
Conclusions And Implications:
An initial set of NL indicators was developed for Taiwan college students, serving as a basis to develop Taiwan College's Nutrition Literacy Scale and providing information on nutrition education.
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